Crime | Genetic Factors May Cause Criminal Behavior

In the movie The Bad Seed, a mother reluctantly comes to realize that her angelic-looking little girl is a cold-blooded killer. That was fiction, of course— a story that built on the notion that someone could be “born bad”—and was overly simplistic as an explanation of evil. But new research is suggesting that that notion might be closer to truth than previously believed.

Scientists have begun to ask whether there is something biologically “wrong,” or different, about people who become violent criminals. And they are disclosing intriguing answers. Moreover,...

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