CJ ST 484 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mental Disorder, Y Chromosome, Temporal Lobe
23 Oct 2017
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Homicide and family: putkonen, ryyn nen, eronen, and tiihonen (2002) examined the criminal records of. 11 children of 36 homicide offenders and compared them to 220 controls that were matched by sex, age, and domicile of birth. They found that among the children of homicide offenders, there was a 24-fold increased risk for committing violent crime and 17-fold increased risk for criminality compared to those whose father was not a murderer. 20 matched controls who were incarcerated but had not committed homicide, 21 healthy participants from the community, and 135 incarcerated controls who had not committed homicide (cope, ermer, gaudet, steele, eckhardt, et al. , 2014.
