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Oliver Rollins, "Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain" (Stanford UP, 2021)

New Books in the History of Science

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Is There a Difference Between a Criminal and a Human?

Rike: The idea that having an extra wy crumb s om porthe clik of men places you at a higher risk to being violent, or that there's more criminals locked up in prison. Wou have stuff around the x y y janesad ther coming out about violence. All this bec comes onder attack and comes under scrutiny. And by the 19 eighties, it really is started to go away. But this coincides with the rise of con of modern day genetic technologies and modern day neuro scientific technologies. Soe kind of trace that historical, this historical way of historical kind of thinking om into the contemporary.

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