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Nature and Nurture?

Mass Media

  • Buchen et al
  • A mix of both factors required
  • One cannot be fully to blame over the other
  • Both play vital role in the creation of criminal behaviour

The Stephen Mobley Case"Genetic Predisposition"

  • Brunner et al
  • Mortal Kombat
  • More aggression displayed from those with more violent experience
  • Modern media consumption can be to blame for violent behaviour
  • Supports nature
  • Trialed during the 90's
  • Family has a history of violence
  • Early example of genetics being used as a defense in court

So does such gene exist?

Enzyme influence? Brunner

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Introduction

  • Robert Merton, Sociologist
  • Stems from positive feedback between behaviour and belief
  • Anti-Social Behaviour Order
  • Provides support for nurture

  • Conducted a study on a Dutch family
  • Males suffer from borderline mental retardation
  • Monoamine Oxidase A
  • Violent behaviour linked to the deficit?
  • Nature versus Nurture, Francis Galton 1869
  • What would it would mean for humans if such gene existed?

Concentric Zones

Finish Prisoners and MAO-A

  • Theorised by Shaw And McKay, 1942
  • Identified 5 zones of a city
  • Zone 2 deemed most deviant
  • Melissa Hogenboom
  • Combination of genes
  • Cadherin 13 variant
  • 13 times more likely to re-offend than those without

Is There Such A Thing As A Criminal Gene?

Is there such thing as a criminal gene?

- Sam Retallack-Hall

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