Nicole Rafter was Professor Emeritus of Criminology at Northeastern University. Her publications include The Crime of All Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide, The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime, and, with Michelle Brown, Criminology Goes to the Movies. In 2009, Rafter was awarded the Sutherland Award by the American Society of Criminology
for outstanding contributions to the discipline.
Chad Posick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia Southern University.
Michael Rocque is Assistant Professor in the Bates Department of Sociology and the Senior Research Advisor for the Maine Department of Corrections.
发表于2024-12-28
The Criminal Brain, Second Edition 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 行为科学 脑科学 神经科学 犯罪学 犯罪
A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology
What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender’s brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, today the pendulum has swung back. Both criminologists and biologists have begun to speak of a tantalizing but disturbing possibility: that criminality may be inherited as a set of genetic deficits that place one at risk to commit theft, violence, or acts of sexual deviance. But what do these new theories really assert? Are they as dangerous as their forerunners, which the Nazis and other eugenicists used to sterilize, incarcerate, and even execute thousands of supposed “born” criminals? How can we prepare for a future in which leaders may propose crime-control programs based on biology?
In this second edition of The Criminal Brain, Nicole Rafter, Chad Posick, and Michael Rocque describe early biological theories of crime and provide a lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology. New chapters introduce the theories of the latter part of the 20th century; apply and critically assess current biosocial and evolutionary theories, the developments in neuro-imaging, and recent progressions in fields such as epigenetics; and finally, provide a vision for the future of criminology and crime policy from a biosocial perspective. The book is a careful, critical examination of each research approach and conclusion. Both compiling and analyzing the body of scholarship devoted to understanding the criminal brain, this volume serves as a condensed, accessible, and contemporary exploration of biological theories of crime and their everyday relevance.
给五星是因为这本书的内容十分重要却在市面上屈指可数,即便很多资料都有涉及生物相关理论与实践的历史发展、现状总结和未来展望,但整本书都介绍这些就极其罕见了,而这本书不止是从源头事件到各类变式完整说明了一个个相互紧密关联的主题,最最关键的是作者秉持科学态度,其讲述的是学界中最为主流的观点并展现了不同流派之间的争论过程和焦点,这种靠谱的学院式读物牺牲了娱乐性,保障了专业性,算的上是该领域必读的材料,可看样子读过这书的人真的是少。最后几章中的总结性观点拿出来说一下,人类的行为具有不可剥离的社会属性,是基于生理基础并且在其所处环境中构建出来的,任何极端偏向生理或社会因素的结论都不正确,因为其根据往往都止步于相关关系而非最最核心的因果关系,因果关系需要通过严谨科学方法推导论证,而目前人类所知仍极为有限。
评分给五星是因为这本书的内容十分重要却在市面上屈指可数,即便很多资料都有涉及生物相关理论与实践的历史发展、现状总结和未来展望,但整本书都介绍这些就极其罕见了,而这本书不止是从源头事件到各类变式完整说明了一个个相互紧密关联的主题,最最关键的是作者秉持科学态度,其讲述的是学界中最为主流的观点并展现了不同流派之间的争论过程和焦点,这种靠谱的学院式读物牺牲了娱乐性,保障了专业性,算的上是该领域必读的材料,可看样子读过这书的人真的是少。最后几章中的总结性观点拿出来说一下,人类的行为具有不可剥离的社会属性,是基于生理基础并且在其所处环境中构建出来的,任何极端偏向生理或社会因素的结论都不正确,因为其根据往往都止步于相关关系而非最最核心的因果关系,因果关系需要通过严谨科学方法推导论证,而目前人类所知仍极为有限。
评分给五星是因为这本书的内容十分重要却在市面上屈指可数,即便很多资料都有涉及生物相关理论与实践的历史发展、现状总结和未来展望,但整本书都介绍这些就极其罕见了,而这本书不止是从源头事件到各类变式完整说明了一个个相互紧密关联的主题,最最关键的是作者秉持科学态度,其讲述的是学界中最为主流的观点并展现了不同流派之间的争论过程和焦点,这种靠谱的学院式读物牺牲了娱乐性,保障了专业性,算的上是该领域必读的材料,可看样子读过这书的人真的是少。最后几章中的总结性观点拿出来说一下,人类的行为具有不可剥离的社会属性,是基于生理基础并且在其所处环境中构建出来的,任何极端偏向生理或社会因素的结论都不正确,因为其根据往往都止步于相关关系而非最最核心的因果关系,因果关系需要通过严谨科学方法推导论证,而目前人类所知仍极为有限。
评分给五星是因为这本书的内容十分重要却在市面上屈指可数,即便很多资料都有涉及生物相关理论与实践的历史发展、现状总结和未来展望,但整本书都介绍这些就极其罕见了,而这本书不止是从源头事件到各类变式完整说明了一个个相互紧密关联的主题,最最关键的是作者秉持科学态度,其讲述的是学界中最为主流的观点并展现了不同流派之间的争论过程和焦点,这种靠谱的学院式读物牺牲了娱乐性,保障了专业性,算的上是该领域必读的材料,可看样子读过这书的人真的是少。最后几章中的总结性观点拿出来说一下,人类的行为具有不可剥离的社会属性,是基于生理基础并且在其所处环境中构建出来的,任何极端偏向生理或社会因素的结论都不正确,因为其根据往往都止步于相关关系而非最最核心的因果关系,因果关系需要通过严谨科学方法推导论证,而目前人类所知仍极为有限。
评分给五星是因为这本书的内容十分重要却在市面上屈指可数,即便很多资料都有涉及生物相关理论与实践的历史发展、现状总结和未来展望,但整本书都介绍这些就极其罕见了,而这本书不止是从源头事件到各类变式完整说明了一个个相互紧密关联的主题,最最关键的是作者秉持科学态度,其讲述的是学界中最为主流的观点并展现了不同流派之间的争论过程和焦点,这种靠谱的学院式读物牺牲了娱乐性,保障了专业性,算的上是该领域必读的材料,可看样子读过这书的人真的是少。最后几章中的总结性观点拿出来说一下,人类的行为具有不可剥离的社会属性,是基于生理基础并且在其所处环境中构建出来的,任何极端偏向生理或社会因素的结论都不正确,因为其根据往往都止步于相关关系而非最最核心的因果关系,因果关系需要通过严谨科学方法推导论证,而目前人类所知仍极为有限。
The Criminal Brain, Second Edition 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书