This excerpt, Chapter 13: Crime and Violence from the book, DNA and Destiny: Nature and Nurture in Human Behavior, by R. Grant Steen discusses the correlation between hereditary genes and criminality. The research the author presents states that there is no known correlation between hereditary genes and violence, but other behaviors that lead to violence are hereditary. These behaviors include alcoholism, mental illnesses and personality disorders. Another good point the author references is the fact that antisocial behavior is hereditary and how it may result to criminal behavior in adults. Although, Grant states in the first paragraph of the subheader “Criminality is Heritable” that “87% of American adolescents participate in some form of
