Describe the biosocial perspective and explain what this perspective considers most important to understanding behavior. Include a discussion of the gender ratio problem and explain why this is not a problem for biosocial theories of crime
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should discus biosocial criminology as a theoretical perspective that sees the interaction between biology and the physical and social environments as key to understanding human behavior, including criminality. A review of the gender ratio problem, which questions why the number of crimes committed by men routinely far exceeds the number of crimes committed by women in almost all categories, should be included. Answers should explain the need to explain gender differences by incorporating biological explanations for criminality and discuss how sociological, psychological, and other approaches tend to ignore the role that physiological differences can play in crime causation.
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