ABSTRACT
Criminology appears to be the subdiscipline within the sociological sphere most open to the biosocial perspective, with some of its brightest stars becoming converts to it. Judging by the blizzard of articles and books on biosocial criminology that have arrived on the scene since the dawn of the twenty-first century, criminology is the subdiscipline of sociology most friendly and open to the theories, concepts, and methods of the biological sciences. Crime is an intentional act of commission or omission contrary to the law; criminality is a property of individuals that signals the willingness to commit those acts. Terrie E. Moffitt’s dual pathway developmental theory is based on findings from an ongoing longitudinal study of a New Zealand birth cohort, and has been called “the most innovative approach to age-crime relationships and life-course patterns”. The age-crime curve encompassing the period of offending for Moffitt’s AL offenders has been called “the most important regularity in criminology”.
