In a recent article published in Criminology, Burt and Simons () claimed that the statistical
violations of the classical twin design render heritability studies useless. Claiming …

Background With the increased knowledge of biological risk factors, interest in including this
information in forensic assessments is growing. Currently, forensic assessments are …

This chapter offers a systematic review of the contemporary biosocial criminology literature,
after presenting a conceptual understanding of biosocial criminology and its research …

Exploring the conditions under which children, as a function of their own abuse, become
abusive themselves. That experiences from childhood affect our behavior in adulthood …

Research on adolescent risk factors for delinquency has suggested that, due to genetic
differences, youth may respond differently to risk factors, with some youth displaying …

Development involves synergistic interplay among genotypes and the physical and cultural
environments, and integrating genetics into experimental designs that manipulate the …

Objective: Culture and biology have evolved together, influence each other, and
concurrently shape behavior, affect, cognition, and development. This special section …

Although Black adolescents have reported a lower prevalence of substance use relative to
non-Hispanic Whites, Black youth are disproportionately affected by adverse social …

Purpose Agnew (2014) has recently called for future research on General Strain Theory
(GST) to focus on examining the interplay between genetic and environmental factors in …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Adolescence is a critical phase of development and
experimentation with delinquent behaviors. There is a growing body of literature exploring …