CCJS 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Biosocial Criminology, Phenotypic Trait, Heritability

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CCJS 105
• Professor: Kiminori Nakamura

Document Summary

Biosocial criminologists assert that because humans have brains, genes, hormones, and an evolutionary history, they should integrate insights from the disciplines that study these things into their theories. We should dismiss na ve nature versus nature arguments in favor of nature with nature. Biosocial criminology is not a theory, rather, a way of looking at criminal behavior from a wide array of biologically informed theories and methodologies. Branch of genetics that studies the relative contributions of heredity and environment to behavioral and personality characteristics. Genotype: a person"s genetic makeup (sum of genes from parents) Phenotype: the observable and measurable behavioral and personality characteristics of any living thing as a result of genes interacting with the environment. Genes: strands of dna that code for thee amino acid sequences of proteins (they make proteins which build, maintain, and replace the tissue in the body) Genes facilitate our behavior and feelings, not cause them.