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Takes a look at the class-crime relationship written from a biosocial perspective, a perspective that views nature and nurture as the heads and tails our development and of our existence.

Noted criminologist Anthony Walsh demonstrates how information from the biological sciences both strengthens criminology work and complements traditional theories of criminal behavior. With its reasoned case for biological science as a fundamental tool of the criminologist, this text is required reading for students and faculty within the field of criminology

Intro -- RACE AND CRIMEA BIOSOCIAL ANALYSIS -- RACE AND CRIMEA BIOSOCIAL ANALYSIS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- OUTLINE OF THE BOOK -- Chapter 1THE RACE CONCEPT -- THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE -- IS RACE A SOCIALLY DANGEROUS IDEA? -- RACE AND GENETIC DISTANCE -- MAPPING A BEHAVIOR-INFLUENCINGGENE SUBJECT TO NATURAL SELECTION -- GENE COUNTING,WITHIN AND BETWEEN -- RUSHTON'S LIFE HISTORY THEORY -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 2RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR -- AFRICAN AMERICAN CRIME -- RACE BASED CRIME DATA -- RACE, HOMICIDE, AND RAPE -- BLACK CRIME RATES OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES -- THE ISSUE OF BIAS IN OFFICIAL STATISTICS -- ARE RACIAL COMPARISONS BASEDON DISPROPORTIONALITY VALID? -- CRIME AMONG OTHER RACIAL/ETHNICGROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES -- Asian Americans -- Hispanic Americans -- American Indian/Alaskan Native -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 3RACE AND "EXTRA-ORDINARY" CRIME -- MULTIPLE MURDER -- Mass and Spree Murder -- Serial Murder -- HATE CRIMES -- WHITE-COLLAR CRIME -- ORGANIZED CRIME -- WHY SO LITTLE COVERAGE OF EXTRA-ORDINARYAFRICAN AMERICAN CRIME? -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 4RACISM:ADISTANT BUTPOWERFUL CAUSE OF CRIME -- RACISM: OLD AND NEW -- RACISM AND OTHER MINORITY GROUPS -- SLAVERY, RACISM, AND THE FORMATIONOF A BLACK SUBCULTURE OF VIOLENCE -- THE FORMATION OF AN OPPOSITIONAL CULTURE -- HOW PAST RACISM CONTRIBUTES TO PRESENT CRIME -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 5RACE, POVERTY, AND CRIME -- THE POVERTY/CRIME NEXUS -- POVERTY AND RACE/ETHNICITY -- The Anomie/Strain Argument -- WORKING FOR A LIVING -- SINGLE-PARENT FAMILIES AND POVERTY -- EDUCATION AND POVERTY -- INDIVIDUAL AND SUBCULTURAL EXPLANATIONS -- THE ENVIRONMENT AND IQ -- MERIT AND OCCUPATIONAL SUCCESS -- EDUCATION AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES

Criminology is in need of conceptual revival, and behavior genetics can provide the concepts and research design to accomplish this. Behavior genetics is a biologically‐friendly environmental discipline that often tells us more about environmental effects on individual traits than about genetic effects. Anomie/strain theory is used to illustrate the usefulness of behavior genetics to criminological theories. Behavior genetics examines the individual differences that sort people into different modes of adaptation and that lead them to cope constructively or destructively with strain. Behavior genetics and other biosocial perspectives have the potential to help illuminate Agnew's (1997) extension of General Strain Theory (GST) into the developmental realm.