2.2.1.2.3 - Adoption studies

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    • Adoption studies compare criminals with their biological and adoptive parents
    • Hutchings and Mednick studied 14,000 adopted children
    • Hutchings and Mednick concluded a high proportion of boys with criminal convictions had biological parents with criminal convictions
    • Mednick found no relationship between the number of criminal convictions of adoptive parents and their children
    • Mednick concluded a significant correlation between the number of criminal convictions of biological parents and their offspring
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