Overview
- Explores evolutionary criminology — a new and expanding area of criminology
- Offers a testable (and tested) model
- Speaks to criminologists and violence researchers
Part of the book series: Palgrave's Frontiers in Criminology Theory (FCRT)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book develops an evolutionary theory of crime. Both evolutionary theory and neurocriminology are growing fields that are attracting more and more interest for criminologists and wider fields alike. This book summarises important readings that relate to retribution and punishment and presents some neurocriminological findings. In addition, the book introduces a new methodology for the study of crime: a game theory experiment adapted from the field of behavioural economics. Overall, the book synthesises the key crime literature, presents a new theory of crime in a new field of evolutionary criminology and the methodology to study it, and provides empirical results in support of the theory. For any evolutionary and neuroscientist interested in deviance, this book offers a new model which is testable using more complex methods such as MRI scanners and survival simulations.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Evelyn Svingen is Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Birmingham, UK, with an interest in evolutionary theory and the neurophysiology of crime. She received her PhD in Criminology at the University of Cambridge, where she was awarded the Cambridge International Scholarship for the promise and originality of her work.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolutionary Criminology and Cooperation
Book Subtitle: Retribution, Reciprocity, and Crime
Authors: Evelyn Svingen
Series Title: Palgrave's Frontiers in Criminology Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36275-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36274-3Published: 28 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36277-4Due: 28 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36275-0Published: 27 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2945-655X
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6568
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 250
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Criminological Theory, Criminal Behavior, Forensic Psychology, Neurosciences, Biological Psychology, Biological Psychology