Adoption Studies

• What does Adoption studies look at ?

  Impact of nurture on children raised by non-biological parents
• In adoption studies ?

  If child similar to biological parent, genetic criminality is given
• What happens if child is similar to non-biological parent in adoption studies ?

  Environmental arguments for criminality is given
• What did Mednick and Hutchings do in adoption studies ?

  studied 14,000 adopted children and discovered boys had more criminal convictions had biological parents with these links