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Criminality:The Biological Accident


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1 Department of Forensic Science, Institute of Forensic Science, Mumbai, India
2 Department of Forensic Biology, Institute of Forensic Science, Mumbai, India
 

Criminality refers to delinquent behavior of committing objectionable acts that are forbidden by the law. While a criminal act craves the necessity of Actus Reus and Mens Rea to be labeled as such, the matter of preeminence is the cause of abomination. While social and environmental factors have a prodigious domination over someone’s behaviour, our concern is the genetic nexus of such behaviour. Genetic Diversity mainly caters a way for populations to adapt to the environment. Adapting and conforming, however, can be used in scathing someone else, or property or a community. The paper promulgates and thus explains the correlation between delinquency and its genetic basis.


Keywords

Criminality, Genetic Diversity, Delinquency.
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Authors

Lakshana Asthana
Department of Forensic Science, Institute of Forensic Science, Mumbai, India
Radhika Shourie
Department of Forensic Science, Institute of Forensic Science, Mumbai, India
Archana L. Mahakalkar
Department of Forensic Biology, Institute of Forensic Science, Mumbai, India

Abstract


Criminality refers to delinquent behavior of committing objectionable acts that are forbidden by the law. While a criminal act craves the necessity of Actus Reus and Mens Rea to be labeled as such, the matter of preeminence is the cause of abomination. While social and environmental factors have a prodigious domination over someone’s behaviour, our concern is the genetic nexus of such behaviour. Genetic Diversity mainly caters a way for populations to adapt to the environment. Adapting and conforming, however, can be used in scathing someone else, or property or a community. The paper promulgates and thus explains the correlation between delinquency and its genetic basis.


Keywords


Criminality, Genetic Diversity, Delinquency.