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Those negative interactions with people result in "hardening antisocial attitudes and behaviors." And moreover, their impairments are often exacerbated by "ineffectual parenting."

As for the AL offenders, they have none of the inherent impairments that the LCP offenders do; in fact, they are "basically pro-social," Walsh explains, but they are "temporarily derailed by the biological and social upheavals of adolescence." Then what happens as the AL boy moves along through school, is that he sees the behavior of LCP boys brings them "status, girls, clothes, cars," and they are drawn to that behavior in hope of tapping into some of those seemingly positive and "mature" things. Later in adolescence, Walsh asserts, the AL offenders are able to "revert to their pro-social" behaviors.

And so, Walsh concludes his book by saying the problem with Warr's book is more what Warr doesn't say, than what he does. Warr, for example, only spends three pages on the issue of gender's relationship to delinquency, though Warr does admit that males commit far more crimes than females, particularly serious and violent crimes.

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"This ubiquity should have alerted Warr that biology must be intimately involved with the differential propensity of males and females to commit crimes, but again it did not."

In conclusion, while admitting that Warr is "a fair and scientifically-minded individual," Walsh also says that Warr does not "dismiss what he appears to admit that he does not yet understand" about biosocial thought. Though the article was critical, in the main, of the book by Warr, reading through the article shed a lot of light on biosocial criminology, and provided a solid basis for understanding the dynamics of biosocial criminology.

Reference

Ask Jeeves (2005). "Biosocial." Accessed March 3, 2005 http://www.factmonster.com.

Walsh, Anthony. "Essay Review: Companions in Crime: A Biosocial Perspective by Anthony Walsh." Human Nature Review 2….....

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