Evaluation (AO3)

• Limitation: Biological Reductionism (define it)

  • he suggests criminal behaviour is not chosen but caused by factors outside an individual's control, namely their biology -> means that the inherited NS governs the personality type a person has and, sometimes, the cause of their criminal behaviour
  • criminal justice implications = criminals lack moral responsibility for their actions due to the removal of free will + lack of engagement with rehab in prison -> could support eugenic ideology