Understanding the Origins of Crime (OrigCrim)
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Course Description
Learn to understand criminal behaviour by looking at our evolutionary history
and animal behaviour in general.
Criminologists, like scientists generally, agree that life resulted from a
process of natural selection. But most do not use that information when
studying what crime is and why it exists. In this course, you will learn the
process of natural selection and how it can be used to make sense of criminal
behaviour.
We will use the theory of evolution to make sense of a broad range of crimes
including several types of homicide, child abuse and neglect, spousal assault
and group level aggression such as warfare, hooliganism, rioting, and gang
fights.
#### What will I learn?
* What natural selection is and how to predict what it will do
* The definition of “biological functionality” and some of the common misconceptions about it
* Some of the basic lessons we can learn about our species and crime from an...
Learn to understand criminal behaviour by looking at our evolutionary history
and animal behaviour in general.
Criminologists, like scientists generally, agree that life resulted from a
process of natural selection. But most do not use that information when
studying what crime is and why it exists. In this course, you will learn the
process of natural selection and how it can be used to make sense of criminal
behaviour.
We will use the theory of evolution to make sense of a broad range of crimes
including several types of homicide, child abuse and neglect, spousal assault
and group level aggression such as warfare, hooliganism, rioting, and gang
fights.
#### What will I learn?
* What natural selection is and how to predict what it will do
* The definition of “biological functionality” and some of the common misconceptions about it
* Some of the basic lessons we can learn about our species and crime from an understanding of Darwinian theory
* Why kin murder is so rare, but the reasons it does occur
* Some of the reasons infanticide and child neglect occur
* The origins of jealousy and its relationship to spousal homicides
* The characteristics of a “typical” homicide
* Why status is so important and how it relates to aggression
* War and warriorship, and examples from across the animal kingdom
* How natural selection rewards warfare
* How pathogens relate to war in the modern world