Ebook {Epub PDF} The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime by Adrian Raine

For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques to investigate the causes and cures of crime. In The Anatomy of Violence, Raine dissects the criminal mind with a fascinating, readable, and far-reaching scientific journey into the body of evidence that reveals the /5(). In this book ‘The Anatomy of Violence’, Adrian Raine sets out what biological research is revealing about the root causes of crime and violence, and he reiterates the nature-or-nurture debate in doing so. Notwithstanding, the book is deeply informative and introduces the reader to a fascinating perspective on crime and violence/5().  · “Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime” by Adrian Raine. This farrago of pseudoscience written by a criminologist is everything that’s wrong with “evolutionary” theories about human behavior wrapped up and deposited between two covers.4/5.

The anatomy of violence: the biological roots of crime. "Provocative and timely: a pioneering neurocriminologist introduces the latest biological research into the causes of--and potential cures for--criminal behavior. A leading criminologist who specializes in the neuroscience behind criminal behavior, Adrian Raine introduces a wide range of. The Anatomy of Violence is an astonishingly accessible account of all the major elements—environmental, social, biochemical, psychological, and neurological—related to crime and human violence, leading us to the conclusion that yes, some people are natural born killers.". — New York Journal of Books. Recent Books Raine, A. (). The anatomy of violence: The biological roots of crime. New York: Pantheon / Random House; London: Allen Lane / Penguin.

The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime. Author: Adrian Raine Publishing: New York: Pantheon Books, p. Reviewer: Jim Finckenauer | July This wide-ranging, multi-faceted, and in many ways unusual book is subtitled, The Biological Roots of Crime. The author, Adrian Raine, is a professor of criminology, psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. A criminologist examines the biological roots of violence, and argues that “the seeds of sin are brain-based.” “The Anatomy of Violence,” the psychologist Adrian Raine sets out to. For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques to investigate the causes and cures of crime. In The Anatomy of Violence, Raine dissects the criminal mind with a fascinating, readable, and far-reaching scientific journey into the body of evidence that reveals the brain to be a key culprit in crime causation.