Biological Contributions to Crime Causation
This book presents reviews of the literature and reports of new findings from research into biological correlates of criminal behavior. The chapters are revised versions of talks given by participants in an Advanced Study Institute sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and held inCaste...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1988, 1988
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1988 |
| Series: | NATO Science Series D:, Behavioural and Social Sciences
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Table of Contents:
- I. Psychophysiological Contributions
- 1 Psychophysiology and Crime: Theory and Data
- 2 Evoked Potentials and Antisocial Behavior
- 3 EEG Topography in Patients with Aggressive Violent Behavior
- II. Neuropsychological Contributions
- 1 Hemisphere Function in Violent Offenders
- 2 Psychopathy and Language
- 3 Neuropsychology and Self-Reported Early Delinquency in an Unselected Birth Cohort: A Preliminary Report from New Zealand
- III. Congenital Contributions
- 1 Genetic and Perinatal Factors in Violence
- IV. Biochemical Contributions
- 1 Antisocial Behavior of Boys and Autonomic Activity/Reactivity
- 2 Cerebrospinal Fluid: Monoamine Metabolites Among Habitually Violent and Impulsive Offenders
- V. Psychopathology Contributions
- 1 Biology, Mental Disorder, Aggression and Violence: What Do We Know?
- 2 Crime and the Schizophrenia Spectrum: A Study of Three Danish Cohorts
- 3 Personality Variables in Antisocial and Prosocial Disinhibitory Behavior
- 4 Prediction of Violence in Psychiatric Inpatients
- 5 Bio-Social Influences on the Control of Aggression/Aggressive Behavior in Mental Health Settings
- VI. Alcohol-Related Contributions
- 1 Alcohol and Violence
- 2 Emotional, Clinical and Familial Correlates of Antisocial Personality Disorder and Alcoholism in Men with Unipolar Major Depression
- VII. Culture and Gender Contributions
- 1 Antisocial Behavior and the Other Side of Cultural Evolution
- 2 Biology and Female Crime