Since the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to evaluate the responsibility and dangerousness of offenders. Despite this rapid circulation, however, we still know very little about the scientific knowledge underlying these expert evaluations. Hereditary traces the historical development of biosocial criminology in the United States from the 1960s to the present, showing how the fate of this movement is intimately linked to that of the field of criminology as a whole. In claiming to identify the biological and environmental causes of so-called "antisocial" behaviors, biosocial criminologists are redefining the boundary between the normal and the pathological. Julien Larregue examines what is at stake in the development of biosocial criminology. Beyond the origins of delinquency, Larregue addresses the reconfiguration of expertise in contemporary societies, and in particular the territorial struggles between the medical and legal professions. For if the causes of crime are both biological and social, its treatment may call for medical as well as legal solutions.
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Publisher
Stanford University PressYear
2024Print ISBN
9781503637764
9781503636439
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1eBook ISBN
9781503637771
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Revival of Biocriminology
- 1. The Birth and Sociological Domination of Criminology in the United States
- 2. The Structural Suffocation of the First Generation of Biosocial Criminologists
- 3. The Turning Point of the 2000s Institutionalizing Biosocial Criminology
- 4. The Scientific Heterogeneity of Biosocial Criminology
- 5. The Resilience of the Nature-Culture Debate
- 6. "Copernican Criminology" Producing Scientific Capital through Controversy
- 7. The Programmed Obsolescence of Biosocial Criminology
- Conclusion: Criminological Imagination in the Biosocial Era
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
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