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Biopsychosocial Perspectives of Major Demographic Correlates of Crime: Age, Sex, Race, and Social Class book cover

1st Edition

Biopsychosocial Perspectives of Major Demographic Correlates of Crime Age, Sex, Race, and Social Class

By Anthony Walsh Copyright 2027
232 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Biopsychosocial Perspectives of Major Demographic Correlates of Crime examines the four major demographic variables related to criminal offending—age, sex, race, and SES from a biopsychosocial perspective. These four variables are typically examined only from a sociological perspective that grants all causal power to social structure, social roles, and socialization and largely ignores the... Read more

Preface.  Acknowledgements.  1.Demography, the Biopsychosocial Approach, and the Age-Crime Curve.  2.Social Causes of the Age-Crime Curve.  3.The Age-Crime Curve and Developmental Biology.  4.Sex/Gender, Crime, and Feminist Criminology.  5.Evolution and Sex/Gender Differential Behavior.  6.Biopsychosocial Perspectives of Sex Differences.  7.Race: Is it Real?  8.Race, Crime, and Criminal Sentencing.  9.Explaining Race Differences in Crime.  10.Childhood Aversity, Race, and Criminal Behavior.  11.Socioeconomic Status and Criminal Behavior.  12.SES: Ascribed or Achieved?  13.SES, Poverty, and Crime.  References.  Index.

Biography

Anthony Walsh graduated from Bowling Green State University, Ohio, at age 44 after serving in the marines and various law enforcement agencies. He has published 60 previous books and about 155 articles or book chapters. He is the recipient of lifetime achievement awards from the Biosocial Criminology Association (2014) and the Biopsychosocial Division of the American Society of Criminology (2019).

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