CRIM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Whitey Bulger, William Bulger, Human Genome Project

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Introduction: genetics and heritability, the dysfunctional brain, body chemistry and criminality. Ingested substances & nutrition: environmental pollution, psychobiotics, hormones and criminality, biosocial criminology. Introduction: the human genome project (hgp, completed in 2003, ge(cid:374)es: portio(cid:374)s of a cell"s dna (they carry coded instructions to the body) ex. Xx and xy (female and male) just because you have a gene does not mean you are going to commit crime. Genetics & heritability: the (cid:862)netherla(cid:374)ds" (cid:373)ost dysfu(cid:374)ctio(cid:374)al fa(cid:373)ily(cid:863, rogers & brunner (1993, monoamine oxidase a(mao-a, neurotransmitters: chemical substances that facilitate the flow of electrical impulses ex. The proportion of variation in traits within a group of people that can be attributes to variations in their genes rather than to their environment. Genetics & heritability (continued: allele: multiple forms (mutation, drd2 a1: dopamine, allele lack of pleasure. Gxe: caspi & moffitt (2002): gene-environment interaction, childhood maltreatment as a risk factor, study of 1,037 children in new zealand, mao-a.

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