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Urban Environment, Genetics, and Crime
Author(s) -
GABRIELLI WILLIAM F.,
MEDNICK SARNOFF A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1984.tb00319.x
Subject(s) - urban environment , criminal behavior , psychology , behavioural genetics , genetics , cohort , gene , biology , developmental psychology , criminology , geography , medicine , environmental planning
Gene‐environment interactions are important for the development of much human behavior. We examined the possibility that a genetic propensity to criminal behavior interacts with the type of environment in which an individual is raised. Using a cohort of adoptees, we found evidence for independent contributions of biological parent criminality (genetic influence) and urban environment rearing to prediction of adoptee criminality, but no evidence for a gene‐environment interaction involving these factors.