Association of height and violent criminality: results from a Swedish total population study | Zendy

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Association of height and violent criminality: results from a Swedish total population study

Author(s) -

Amber L. Beckley,

Ralf KujaHalkola,

Lena Lundholm,

Niklas Långström,

Thomas Frisell

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyt274

Subject(s) - association (psychology) , demography , poison control , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , occupational safety and health , suicide prevention , population , medicine , psychology , environmental health , sociology , pathology , psychotherapist

Violent criminality is at least moderately heritable, but the mechanisms behind this remain largely unexplained. Height, a highly heritable trait, may be involved but no study has estimated the effect of height on crime while simultaneously accounting for important demographic, biological and other heritable confounders.

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