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Adolescent problem behaviors -- Theoretical framework and model development -- Testing the model : a multi-state U.S. sample -- Critical findings -- Discussion and implications

The biosocial underpinnings to behavior -- The dopaminergic and serotonergic systems -- The national longitudinal study of adolescent health -- The gene X environment basis to antisocial phenotypes -- Conclusion

Introduction -- The human context of the death penalty -- Restorative justice and the death penalty -- Giving voice to the condemned and their victims -- Data and methodology -- Last statements of the condemned -- Co-victim statements -- Discussion and conclusion

Bias crime legislation and public opinion : an overview -- The emergence and legality of bias crime legislation -- Scholarly perspectives on bias crime legislation -- Public opinion research on bias crime and legislation -- Public opinion research on crime and punishment and its relevance to bias crime -- The current study : design to analysis -- Citizens : views on bias crime -- Citizens : bias crime policy preferences -- Citizens : responses to bias crime vignettes -- Citizens : views on bias crime legislation -- Findings and implications

Analyzing the impact of the Brady Bill on homicide rates -- The importance of gun control research -- An empirical test of the Brady Bill -- Failing to reduce handgun homicide rates -- Guiding policy with empirical evidence

Violence and chronic offending as a social phenomenon -- Exploring the relationship between childhood XE "childhood" mental health problems and violent behaviors -- Developmental modeling of DSM-oriented problems and serious offending behaviors in youth -- Findings regarding youth violence and property crime -- Implications and conclusions

Beaver introduces the reader to biosocial criminology, including the ways in which genes and the environment combine together to produce different antisocial outcomes. He then proceeds to provide an empirical examination of the genetic underpinnings to criminal behaviors by analyzing data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The results of the analyses provide some evidence indicating that antisocial phenotypes are due to interactions between genetic and environmental factors. Beaver concludes with a call for criminologists and other social scientists to adopt a biosocial perspective to the study of human behavior.

The importance of studying self-protective behaviors -- Prior research on self-protective behaviors -- Using the national crime victimization survey -- The effectiveness of self-protective behavior -- Past, present, and future research