범죄의 생물학적 근거에 관한 이론적 고찰

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In the past, theories which advanced this type of explanation tended to adopt the stance that crime was a sickness or illness which afflicted individual criminals, and was the result of some biological dysfunction or disorder. Many contemporary criminologists have doubted these biological, particularly genetic, explanations of crime Modern biological theorists de consider that genes are influential because they have a strong influence on brain function and therefore, it is believed, on behaviour and criminality. Since all human beings are genetically unique this can help explain differences in behaviour by individuals who have been subjected to similar environmental and social influences. However, most modern researchers do not view the part played by biology in any explanation of criminality as indicating an illness or a dysfunction. rather it suggests the possibility of a slightly different configuration of normal genes giving rise to a temperament which is more receptive to antisocial types of behaviour.