DEMONSTRATING THE VALIDITY OF TWIN RESEARCH IN CRIMINOLOGY

被引:101
作者
Barnes, J. C. [1 ]
Wright, John Paul [1 ,6 ]
Boutwell, Brian B. [2 ]
Schwartz, Joseph A. [3 ]
Connolly, Eric J. [4 ]
Nedelec, Joseph L. [1 ]
Beaver, Kevin M. [5 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cincinnati, Sch Criminal Justice, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[2] St Louis Univ, Sch Social Work, St Louis, MO 63103 USA
[3] Univ Nebraska, Sch Criminol & Criminal Justice, Omaha, NE 68182 USA
[4] Penn State Univ, Criminal Justice Dept, Abington, PA USA
[5] Florida State Univ, Coll Criminol & Criminal Justice, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[6] King Abdulaziz Univ, Ctr Social & Humanities Res, Jeddah 21413, Saudi Arabia
关键词
assumptions; behavior genetics; biosocial; empirical; quantitative; twins; EQUAL-ENVIRONMENT ASSUMPTION; COMMON SNPS EXPLAIN; ADOLESCENT DELINQUENT INVOLVEMENT; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION; ANTISOCIAL-BEHAVIOR; SELF-CONTROL; GENETIC INFLUENCE; PERSONALITY SIMILARITY; ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS; PHYSICAL SIMILARITY;
D O I
10.1111/1745-9125.12049
中图分类号
DF [法律]; D9 [法律];
学科分类号
0301 ;
摘要
In a recent article published in Criminology, Burt and Simons () claimed that the statistical violations of the classical twin design render heritability studies useless. Claiming quantitative genetics is fatally flawed and describing the results generated from these models as preposterous, Burt and Simons took the unprecedented step to call for abandoning heritability studies and their constituent findings. We show that their call for an end to heritability studies was premature, misleading, and entirely without merit. Specifically, we trace the history of behavioral genetics and show that 1) the Burt and Simons critique dates back 40 years and has been subject to a broad array of empirical investigations, 2) the violation of assumptions in twin models does not invalidate their results, and 3) Burt and Simons created a distorted and highly misleading portrait of behavioral genetics and those who use quantitative genetic approaches.
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页码:588 / 626
页数:39
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