Biological Contributions to Crime Causation

ISBN-13: 9789024736553 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 332 str.

Moffitt; T. E. Moffitt; Sarnoff A. Mednick

Opis

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Biological Bases of Antisocial Behavior, Il Ciocco, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy, September 7-16, 1986

Spis treści

I. Psychophysiological Contributions.- 1 Psychophysiology and Crime: Theory and Data.- 2 Evoked Potentials and Antisocial Behavior.- 3 EEG Topography in Patients with Aggressive Violent Behavior.- II. Neuropsychological Contributions.- 1 Hemisphere Function in Violent Offenders.- 2 Psychopathy and Language.- 3 Neuropsychology and Self-Reported Early Delinquency in an Unselected Birth Cohort: A Preliminary Report from New Zealand.- III. Congenital Contributions.- 1 Genetic and Perinatal Factors in Violence.- IV. Biochemical Contributions.- 1 Antisocial Behavior of Boys and Autonomic Activity/Reactivity.- 2 Cerebrospinal Fluid: Monoamine Metabolites Among Habitually Violent and Impulsive Offenders.- V. Psychopathology Contributions.- 1 Biology, Mental Disorder, Aggression and Violence: What Do We Know?.- 2 Crime and the Schizophrenia Spectrum: A Study of Three Danish Cohorts.- 3 Personality Variables in Antisocial and Prosocial Disinhibitory Behavior.- 4 Prediction of Violence in Psychiatric Inpatients.- 5 Bio-Social Influences on the Control of Aggression/Aggressive Behavior in Mental Health Settings.- VI. Alcohol-Related Contributions.- 1 Alcohol and Violence.- 2 Emotional, Clinical and Familial Correlates of Antisocial Personality Disorder and Alcoholism in Men with Unipolar Major Depression.- VII. Culture and Gender Contributions.- 1 Antisocial Behavior and the Other Side of Cultural Evolution.- 2 Biology and Female Crime.