Lightning Talk: What’s Wrong with Developmental and Biopsychosocial Criminology – And How Can We Put It Right?

Session Submission Type: Lightning Talk Session

Abstract/Description

The two divisions of developmental and life-course criminology and biopsychosocial criminology are arguably progressing at a modest pace, on the one hand in advancing our understanding of how crime develops, and on the other on how biological factors interact with social factors in explaining offending. But are we being too complacent in basking in the shallow success of the modest progress made so far? Are these areas beginning to tread water? Do we lack genuinely creative ideas that can crack through the stale molds that the status quo has encased us in? And if so, what are we going to do about it? In a series of incisive lightening talks, leaders in these two fields will boldly face these challenges by enlightening us with unvarnished accounts of what’s fundamentally amiss with developmental and biopsychosocial criminology - and how it can be put right. An equally important contribution will be made by audience participants whose questions and challenging perspectives will help both enrich discussion and lead these criminology divisions into productive change for the good.

Sub Unit

• Area XIII. Lightning Talks

Individual Presentations

• Biopsychosocial Criminology Needs a Research Agenda - J.C. Barnes, University of Cincinnati

• A Biopsychosocial Approach to Reduce Offending - Olivia Choy, Nanyang Technological University

• Beyond Correlations: Translating Biopsychosocial Research into Practical Applications for Antisocial Behavior Interventions - Andrea Glenn, University of Alabama

• Developmental Criminology needs to think about time - Manuel Eisner, University of Cambridge

• How can we make the DLC knowledge base more accessible and relevant to policy and practice? - Lila Kazemian, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• Developmental criminology: Toward more practice-oriented, well-designed, long-term, and replicated prevention studies - Friedrich Lösel, Cambridge University / University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

• Are we at the end of developmental and life-course criminology? - Alex R. Piquero, University of Miami

Chair

• Adrian Raine, University of Pennsylvania

Organized by a Division or external group?

Biopsychosocial Criminology
Developmental and Life-Course Criminology