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Creating Born Criminals
Genetic screening, new reproductive technologies, gene therapies, and the reality of cloning all make biological solutions to human social problems seem possible. Creating Born Criminals shows how history can guide us in our response to the reemergence of eugenics. The first social history origins and content, showing their undue influence on crime control in the United States.
320 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1997
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Nicole Rafter
8 books4 followersNicole Rafter is Professor Emerita of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University.
She achieved her PhD in Criminal Justice from State University of New York. Albany sparked her academia career in feminist criminology. She began writing on delinquent individuals from the time of her very first publication in 1969.
In 1977 Rafter began teaching at Northeastern University’s College of Criminal Justice in Boston, Massachusetts. Here she developed one of the country’s first courses on women and crime as well as a course on crime films.
In 1999 she resigned her position as a full-time professor to focus on her writing projects. In 2002 she resumed teaching at the College of Criminal Justice with a graduate course in Biological Theories of Crime.
Her most recent two awards are the American Society of Criminology's Sutherland Award in 2009 as well as the Allen Austin Bartolemew award for Best Paper for Criminology's Darkest Hour: Biocriminology in Nazi Germany.
She achieved her PhD in Criminal Justice from State University of New York. Albany sparked her academia career in feminist criminology. She began writing on delinquent individuals from the time of her very first publication in 1969.
In 1977 Rafter began teaching at Northeastern University’s College of Criminal Justice in Boston, Massachusetts. Here she developed one of the country’s first courses on women and crime as well as a course on crime films.
In 1999 she resigned her position as a full-time professor to focus on her writing projects. In 2002 she resumed teaching at the College of Criminal Justice with a graduate course in Biological Theories of Crime.
Her most recent two awards are the American Society of Criminology's Sutherland Award in 2009 as well as the Allen Austin Bartolemew award for Best Paper for Criminology's Darkest Hour: Biocriminology in Nazi Germany.
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It kind of blows my mind that people actually thought this way, but it explains a lot. And as much as I dislike that I'm doing this, it actually relates to a lot of Marxist theory.
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