Creating Born Criminals by Nicole Rafter
Genetic screening, new reproductive technologies, gene therapies, and the reality of cloning all make biological solutions to human social problems seem possible. Creating Born Criminals shows how history can guide us in our response to the reemergence of eugenics. The first social history origins and content, showing their undue influence on crime control in the United States.
Winner of the Hervey BWilbur Historic Preservation Award given by the American Association on Mental Retardation, 1999.
Rafter, Nicole: - Nicole Rafter was Professor Emeritus of Criminology at Northeastern University. Her publications include The Crime of All Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide, The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime, and, with Michelle Brown, Criminology Goes to the Movies. In 2009, Rafter was awarded the Sutherland Award by the American Society of Criminology for outstanding contributions to the discipline.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780252067419 |
| ISBN 10 | 025206741X |
| Title | Creating Born Criminals |
| Author | Nicole Rafter |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
| Year published | 1998-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the Hervey B. Wilbur Historic Preservation Award given by the American Association on Mental Retardation, 1999. 1999 |
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