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ABANDON TWIN RESEARCH? EMBRACE EPIGENETIC RESEARCH? PREMATURE ADVICE FOR CRIMINOLOGISTS
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In their original article, Burt and Simons (2014) argued that heritability studies should be abandoned because twin and adoption research is a fatally flawed paradigm. They pointed optimistically to epigenetics research as the way forward. In our view, both rec-ommendations are hasty. This commentary will put forward two contrarian opinions. First, twin and adoption studies still have a lot to offer criminologists who seek the social causes of crime. Second, epigenetics research has very little to offer yet for criminologists who seek the social causes of crime. WHAT CAN TWIN AND ADOPTION RESEARCH OFFER CRIMINOLOGISTS? Twin and adoption studies are informative about environmental crime causation. In 2005, Terrie E. Moffitt reviewed the contribution of twin and adoption research to the study of antisocial behavior in a paper titled, “The New Look of Behavioral Genetics,” which subsequently became the basis of a lecture for the Stockholm Criminology Prize (Moffitt, 2005a; see also Moffitt, 2005b). The message was that the most remarkable con-tribution of behavioral genetic studies to science is the robust and compelling evidence
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The family fixed-effects design offers a natural solution to ruling out many sources of confounding in criminological research.
“As a result, the design offers “a natural solution” to ruling out many sources of confounding in criminological research (Moffitt & Beckley, 2015, p. 123).”
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The study demonstrated that twin samples and methods have utility for criminological theory testing that reaches beyond the typical strategy of estimating heritability.
“In doing so, we have demonstrated that twin samples and methods have utility for criminological theory testing that reaches beyond the typical strategy of estimating heritability (see Moffitt & Beckley, 2015).”
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“The family fixed-effects design has appeared in the literature under other names such as the “co-relative approach” (Kendler, 2017), “discordant twin design” (Moffitt & Beckley, 2015), “twin difference approach” (Nedelec & Silver, 2018), and “siblingcomparison analysis” (Connolly & Kavish, 2018).”
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- Authors
- MOFFITT, T. E., & BECKLEY, A.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- Stockholm University (SE)
- Corresponding author
- MOFFITT, TERRIE E.
- Venue
- Criminology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-02
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 121-126
- ISSN
- 0011-1384 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-9125
- OpenAlex
- W1570200279
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 5
- FWCI
- 19.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.scopus.com
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- Criminology (publishedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Keywords
- twin studies, adoption studies, epigenetics, heritability, behavioral genetics, antisocial behavior, social causes of crime
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