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Genetics is the most argued point of criminology today. Some believe that genetics cause people to commit crimes.
People research to find out
if a certain chromosome combination will automatically will make you a criminal or not. If this is true you could
see even before your child was born if it would be a criminal in society. These
studies proved very successful. Here are some outcomes of the geneticist and their lab studies
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One of the most used theories of why criminals commit crimes is the person's ability to commit crime is pre-determined.
If that is so criminals have no choice of what they do.
Some of the genetic abnormalities that would make someone pre-determined would be the
XYY chromosomal structure (Not effective in women, just men). A chromosomal test in prisons had an outcome of 27Y, which
means most of the prisoners had that many Y chromosomes. This is a chemical imbalance
caused either from genetics.
These theories have been tested on people in prison and have seem to have a high outcome. The "criminal disease" could be caused by a recessive
gene passed down from one or either both of the parents. This means if it is recessive in a female
that both parents must give 2 recessive genes to get that disease. That is why you rarely see woman
criminals in our society. If the parents give the recessive gene to the male offspring the male automatically
has the disease since he does not have another X chromosome to have another dominant chromosome to over write
the disease. Therefore a person may carry the disease and it may not show for many generations and
suddenly show up in someone. You can never tell unless you study the genes and DNA very closely.
When examining the DNA of a person the geneticist has to search for very small errors in
the code. Some examples of this would be broken parts off of some chromosomes or even less or more than normal
chromosomes. In the future geneticists might be able to view your offspring's chromosomes and might
be able to alter the genes to make the person(s) normal. With the help of genetic engineering it is possible
to make a child with certain traits depending what traits the parents have. They can make the child
normal normal and not have any genetic disorders. This might reduce crime rate in the world and make
things safer. This process takes time and money, but in the future there will be cheaper and faster ways of doing this as is with all technology.
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