Theories Of Crime Causation Unit 2 Individual

Crime and genetics has always been a subject of great debate. Theorists are generally of the view that both these are connected at some point of societal evolution and technological development. The study of crime has been greatly influenced by the study of genetics. It has been proved that genetics and environmental influences have a telling role to play in the causation of crimes. Aggression has always played a very important role in crime history. Though the definition of aggression is not understood in its proper sense, the attributes of aggression are crime. While aggression is generally a group attack, crime in its narrow sense is generally done by a few or in many instances lone cases. It has been proved that crime can be related to ancestry. History has stood testimony to the fact that even the remotest of the descendants of Attila the Hun have almost all the traits of the Hun. The only change being that the genetic structure got intermingled in the course of progeny, but still remained a strong characteristic and would surface at any time. Majority of the criminology theories have given enough proof that genetics has a very important role to play in