Based on the article, “What role can, and should genetics play and understanding which people might become violent and commit crimes – and putting them in in jail.” I think the integration of genetics and biology into criminology doesn’t have to be approached with caution because the article talks about how 2 million black or Latino men were locked up in the United States. Sometime in October 2021, the national Institute of justice published a report saying that correctional officials should examine the biology of imprisoned people to know more about biological and genetic factors that affect behavior. Anthony Walsh, a former police officer spent too much time, focusing on the social causes of crime. He said “Everything, and everybody was accountable for the crime, except the guy who committed it.” Later, Walsh did an interview saying that he wondered if genetics and evolutionary biology could help explain why some people offend, and others do not. Experts in human evolution countered that by saying biology is not a very useful tool for explaining these kinds of racial disparities for example, racial categories are just rough attempts to describe the biological variation among human beings. Scientists can also sometimes identify differences and those differences tend to be very slight, and have no obvious link to a violent behavior.
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Hey Louis, Like you talked about the police officer Anthony Walsh, think that people in modern times do tend to focus too much on the social aspect on why crime is being committed rather than the criminal themselves. I believe both aspects are important and should not be ignored if we want to have a more comprehensive understanding of crime. Thank you for sharing your response.