Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 2 Biobehavioral Influences (1994) / Chapter Skim
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The first sample was a small series in which twins were ascertained in a psychiatric setting and demonstrated both heritability of symptoms of antisocial personality disorder and important genetic correlations between antisocial behavior and alcohol and substance abuse {Carey, 1993; Miles and Carey, 19931. The second sample was a population-based twin sample of children and adolescents and suggested modest heritability for a classification of symptoms of conduct disorder {Eaves et al., 19931.
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40 / GREGORY CAREY TABLE 6 Results of Modern Genetic Studies of Violent Offenders Variables Results Danish Number of court adoptees convictions of biological parents with percent of male adoptees who committed a crime of violence Very slight but insignificant trend toward increased participation rates in violent offenses among male adoptees as a function of number of biological parental .
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GENETICS AND VIOLENCE / 41 violent offense on record, 16.6 percent of the sons were registered for alcohol problems jX2 = 4.145, p < .05, tetrachoric r = .145~. Finally, Cloninger and Gottesman {1987)
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