Evolutionary Criminology and Cooperation: Retribution, Reciprocity, and Crime (E. Svingen)

Session Submission Type: Author meets critics

Abstract

This book develops an evolutionary theory of crime, the Retribution and Reciprocity Model (RRM), and discusses biosocial criminology's role in solving criminology's theoretical crisis. Both evolutionary theory and neurocriminology are growing fields that are attracting more and more interest for criminologists and wider fields alike. This book summarises important readings related to retribution and punishment and presents some neurocriminological findings. In addition, the book introduces a new methodology for the study of crime: a game theory experiment adapted from the field of behavioural economics. Overall, the book synthesises the key crime literature, presents a new theory of crime in a new field of evolutionary criminology and its methodology, and provides empirical results supporting the theory.

Subtopic

• Topic 1: Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Behavior / Biological, Biosocial and Psychological Perspectives

Critics

• Kyle Treiber, University of Cambridge

• Manuel Eisner, University of Cambridge

• Timothy Edgemon, University of Birmingham

Book Author

• Evelyn Svingen, University of Birmingham