Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Biosocial criminologists dismiss the nature versus nurture argument in favor of the approach of nature via nurture.
2. According to biosocial criminologists, behavior is always the result of biological factors interacting with environmental factors.
3. Modern day behavior geneticists are searching for the gene that causes criminal behavior.
4. On the scale used by behavior geneticists to quantify the relative impact of genes versus environment, the closer the score to 1.0, the less variance there is for that trait in the population.
5. Genetic effects on antisocial behavior are most likely to be found among those who begin offending in their early teenage years, and desist by their mid-twenties.


1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. False

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