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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of the science of biological criminology and its potential effects on society. It considers issues such as unjust judicial intervention on the assumption of future crime, as well as the impact on parents of children identified as having biological characteristics of a criminal type. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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then it might be possible to therapeutically intervene in such cases before any major harm is done. One attempt to find such means is the study of the correlation between
certain biological traits and criminal behavior. If I, as a criminologist, were to discover evidence of such a correlation, it would be a powerful boon to the understanding of criminal
psychology, but the information would have to be handled in a responsible manner to prevent its abuse. Biological criminology has a long history: the advent of positivism in Western
culture gave birth to a number of disciplines which seek to study humanity through the lens of the scientific method, and criminology was one of the foremost among them. Spurred
on by the rapid developments seen in other fields like biology and clinical psychology, criminologists sought a scientific answer to the question of whether or not some people are more
innately likely to commit crime than others; if there is, in fact, a "criminal type" (Kauzlarich 231). While Kauzlarich writes that biological theories of crime have more or less been
ignored since the 1950s and 60s, the debate is still not officially resolved (231). Therefore, future studies into biological predispositions to criminal behavior are not so far-fetched. This paragraph
stresses the risks of being too aggressive in intervention of "criminal-type" children, with an historical example. If I discovered some conclusive evidence of a biological link to criminal behavior, I
do feel that there would be some ethical duty to publish that information. Its usefulness in non-punitive therapeutic intervention might well prove invaluable in producing well-adjusted individuals out of conditions
where antisocial behavior might other thrive. In order to ensure that the information would be used responsibly, however, I would have to take special care to present the material in
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