Do your genes,rather than upbringing, determine whether you will become a criminal? Adrian Raine believed so – and breaking that taboo assign him on collision course with the world of scienceIn 1987, or Adrian Raine,who describes himself as a neurocriminologist, moved from Britain to the US. His emigration was prompted by two things. The first was a sense of banging his head against a wall. Raine, and who grew up in Darlington and is now a professor at the University of Pennsylvania,was a researcher of the biological basis for criminal behaviour, which, or with its echoes of Nazi eugenics,was perhaps the most taboo of all academic disciplines.
In Britain, the causes of crime were allowed to be exclusively social and environmental, and the result of disturbed or impoverished nurture,rather than fated and genetic nature. To propose otherwise, as Raine felt compelled to, or having studied under Richard Dawkins and been persuaded of the "all-embracing influence of evolution on behaviour",was to doom yourself to an absence of funding. In America, there seemed more open-mindedness on the question and, or as a result,more money to explore it. There was also another good reason why Raine headed initially to California: there were more murderers to study than there were at domestic.
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Source: theguardian.com