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Genetics and crime : Integrating new genomic discoveries into psychological research about antisocial behavior
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- Wertz, J. (author)
- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, United States
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- Caspi, A. (author)
- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, United States; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States; Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, United States; Social, Genetic, & Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, England
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- Belsky, D. W. (author)
- Department of Medicine, Duke University, School of Medicine, Durham, United States; Social Science Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, United States
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- 2018-03-07
- 2018
- English.
- In: Psychological Science. - New York : Cambridge University Press. - 0956-7976 .- 1467-9280. ; 29:5, s. 791-803
- Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Drawing on psychological and sociological theories of crime causation, we tested the hypothesis that genetic risk for low educational attainment (assessed via a genome-wide polygenic score) is associated with criminal offending. We further tested hypotheses of how polygenic risk relates to the development of antisocial behavior from childhood through adulthood. Across the Dunedin and Environmental Risk (E-Risk) birth cohorts of individuals growing up 20 years and 20,000 kilometers apart, education polygenic scores predicted risk of a criminal record with modest effects. Polygenic risk manifested during primary schooling in lower cognitive abilities, lower self-control, academic difficulties, and truancy, and it was associated with a life-course-persistent pattern of antisocial behavior that onsets in childhood and persists into adulthood. Crime is central in the nature-nurture debate, and findings reported here demonstrate how molecular-genetic discoveries can be incorporated into established theories of antisocial behavior. They also suggest that improving school experiences might prevent genetic influences on crime from unfolding.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Psychology (hsv//eng)
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- crime
- genetics
- antisocial behavior
- longitudinal
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