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Is Crime Genetic? Scientists Don't Know Because They're Afraid to Ask

B. Boutwell, J. C. Barnes | Boston Globe (http://www.bostonglobe.com/) | 6 March 2017

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/03/06/crime-genetic-scientists-don-know-because-they-afraid-ask/3lhGUVuNsfdJXjvhtaxPHN/story.html

Extract: ... Ah, heritability. A term that is much maligned in disciplines like criminology and often serves as a wellspring of confusion. Humans differ in height, weight, personality style, and behavioral tendencies - not everyone is nice and outgoing, just like not everyone is as tall as a professional basketball player. But here's the important part, heritability has to do with the origins of these differences. To say that something is heritable is to say that genetic differences play a role in creating observable differences ... The effects of genetic differences make some people more impulsive and shortsighted than others, some people more healthy or infirm than others, and, despite how uncomfortable it might be to admit, genes also make some folks more likely to break the law than others.