Sexuality and Crime

Anthony Walsh is a professor of criminal justice at Boise State University. He has taught biosocial criminology, statistics, and philosophy of law there for 34 years. He received his PhD in criminology from Bowling Green State University in 1983. He worked as a marine, merchant seaman, police officer, and probation officer before entering academia at the age of 44. He is widely published, with 50 books and 150 articles and book chapters on a variety of topics including criminology and biosocial aspects of crime. He was awarded lifetime achievement awards from both the Biosocial Criminology Association and the Biopsychosocial Section of the American Society of Criminology for his research in biosocial criminology. His work has been featured on the Phil Donahue Show, Nova, and Nippon (Japanese) TV.

• Chapter One: Bringing Biology Back InIntroductionBiosocial CriminologyThe Fallacy of Genetic DeterminismBehavior and Tinbergen’s Four QuestionsChapter Two: Behavioral Genetics: Genes and HeritabilityFrom Gene to ProteinThe Concept of HeritabilityTwin and Adoption StudiesHeritability in Different EnvironmentsShared and Non-Shared EnvironmentGene-Environment Interaction and Gene-Environment Correlation Chapter Three: Molecular Genetics and Behavior Genetic PolymorphismsQuantitative Trait LociEpigeneticsDopaminergic Polymorphisms and Criminal and Sexual BehaviorGenetics and Human FreedomChapter Four: How Criminal Traits Evolve and Are RetainedCrime is NormalAltruismEmpathyCooperation Creates Niches for CheatsDetecting and Punishing CheatsChapter Five: Evolutionary Theories of CrimeEvolutionary Theories of Crime: Past is PrologCheater and Conditional Adaptation TheoriesThe Gender Ratio IssueThe Age-Crime CurveChapter Six: Life History Theory and the Covariance of Sexual and Criminal TraitsThe Basics of Life History TheoryHuman Life Histories and the K-FactorLinking Sexuality to Criminal Traits and BehaviorsThe Role of the Environment on Life History StrategiesChapter Seven: The Human BrainThe Enchanted Loom and Reinforcement Sensitivity TheoryWiring the Brain: Experience Expected and Experience Dependent MechanismsSynaptogenesis as Neural DarwinismNeurotransmittersThe Serotonergic SystemNorepinephrine and Epinephrine Testosterone and CortisolChapter Eight: The Antisocial Personalities: Psychopaths and SociopathsDifferentiating Antisocial Personality Disorder, Psychopathy, and Sociopathy The Psychopathy Checklist-RevisedEvolutionary ConsiderationsThe Neurobiology of PsychopathyNeurochemistry Associated with PsychopathySociopathyChapter Nine: The Sex Ratio, Fast Life Histories, and CrimeThe Sex RatioCrime and the Sex RatioThe Sex Ratio in the African American CommunityThe Sex Ratio, Illegitimacy, and PovertyHigh Sex Ratios and CrimeReferences