NCJ Number
239705
Journal
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice Volume: 28 Issue: 3 Dated: August 2012 Pages: 346-365
Date Published
August 2012
Length
20 pages
Annotation
This article discusses ways in which antisocial strategies and the people who employ them are characterized.
Abstract
Criminological theories tend to explain street crime as either a reaction to personal deficiencies or a reaction to inequality and injustice. Using adaptive strategy and life history theory, this article seeks to unite these explanations of crime under the biosocial umbrella. It incorporates the psychology of crime, tying traits implicated in low self-control, psychopathy, and mating effort to antisocial strategies and discusses how strategies based on low self-control and psychopathy may be promoted or controlled. It further applies adaptive strategy theory to nonstreet crime, with the aim of bringing critical and biosocial criminology closer together. Abstract published by arrangement with Sage Journals.