A recent study posted on www.Sciencedaily.com talks about how genes and crime may have a correlation, or connection, to each other. More specifically, genes can affect criminal behaviors. The study mainly focused on antisocial behavior as a child causing violent behaviors later in life. The study was theorized by Dr. Terri Moffitt, who identified three pathways of which people take: Life course criminal offenders, adolescent criminal offenders, and those who abstain from criminal acts. The ones to show the least amount of genetic influence are the adolescent offenders, and a lot of the crimes are "teenager" things such as alcohol and drug use, minor property damage, etc. The pathway affected almost equally, about 60%, by genetics and environmental factors are those of which abstain from crime. The ones mostly affected by genetics are the life course offenders, and that reaches around 70% of those tested. I believe this is a very interesting article and kind of a random study, although it seems important once the conclusions were drawn.
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120125151841.htm
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