.ADDRESS THE BIOLOGICAL
Based on the findings of the monk, Gregory Mendel Agustino (Austria 1822-1884), born a science called genetics, which is responsible for studying the mechanisms by which transmitting hereditary characteristics (normal or pathological).
The study which was inheritance laws based on crossing plants., Discoveries in genetics caught the attention of criminologists, who sought the chance that some provision to the crime could be hereditary.
The discoveries were mentally ill, finding the high incidence of consanguineous relationship between abnormal.
Today no one can say that the existence of a hereditary defect is explaining the genesis of crime, as it is not a disease or crime but what is inherited predisposition.
The major contribution of the currents that are seeking to inherit the causes of crime is that at the moment forces us to examine what are the hereditary factors and influences the conduct as criminal.
Three methods have been used to investigate the relationship between heredity and crime:
1 .- The genealogy of the offender .- Thinking of this legacy, several researchers directed their efforts to study the families of criminals, finding matches and demonstrating that there are notable famous families in which the majority of the components are criminals.
A classic example is the Juke family, followed by DUGDALE over 200 years, which proved that the founder of this family, malviviente an alcoholic, had 709 descendants, of which 77 were criminals, 202 prostitutes and 142 vagrants and malviviente.
However, sociologists have argued that this was produced by the learning derived from that of coexistence, because it was logical that children learn by example from parents ...