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A Mind to Crime : The Controversial Link Between the Mind and Criminal Behaviour - Ann Moir, David Jessel

Description: Genre: Science / Nature / A popular study of research into the biological bases of criminal behaviour.

Newest Review: ... to people’s psyches. Just as petrol does unpleasant things to our environment. But that’s the status quo and ... more

... some people benefit from it. Lawyers and politicians and so on. Which is why if they were offered a solution to crime, I don’t think they would take it. In fact, they have already been offered solutions to crime and they have already refused to take them. Tentative solutions, anyway, and certainly new and potentially very fruitful ways of thinking about crime and what causes it. This book is a look at some of these new ways of thinking. The old ways - or rather, way - was never very fruitful. The old way was bas...more

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A Mind to Crime : The Controversial Link Between the Mind and Criminal Behaviour - Ann Moir, David Jessel: Brains & Behavior (933 words)
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You might not know this, but someone has already invented a car that can run practically for ever on a single tank of petrol. In fact, he did it a long time ago. Way back in the ’seventies. But the oil-companies went calling on him with a large suitcase full of money. Or had him murdered and his workshop burnt down. And that was the end of it. Or so the story goes. It’s a good story too and we’re quite ready to believe it. In our ideal world, we wouldn’t have to fill up with petrol regularly and frequently. In the oil companies’ ideal world, we do. So if anything happened that threatened to change their ideal world into our ideal ... Read the complete review