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Beaver, Kevin M. and Joseph L. Nedelec. 2015. “A Biosocial Explanation for Male-Female Differences in Criminal Involvement” The Biosocial Vs. Nurture Debate in Criminology: On the Origins of Criminal Behavior and Criminality.

Beaver, Kevin M., Joseph L. Nedelec, Christian da Silva Costa, and Maria Margareth Vidal . 2015. “The Future of Biosocial Criminology” Criminal Justice Studies 28 (Spring):6-17.

Boutwell, Brian B., J.C. Barnes, and Kevin M. Beaver. 2015. “Why We Need a Nature/Nurture Book in Criminology” The Biosocial Vs. Nurture Debate in Criminology: On the Origins of Criminal Behavior and Criminality.

Heylen, Ben, Lieven Pauwels, Kevin M. Beaver, and Marc Ruffinengo. 2015. “Defending Biosocial Criminology: On the Discursive Style of Our Critics, the Separation of Ideology and Science, and a Biologically Informed Defense of Fundamental Values” Journal of Philosophical and Theoretical Criminology 7 (January): 83-95.

Barnes, J.C., Brian B. Boutwell, and Kevin M. Beaver. 2014. “Contemporary Biosocial Criminology: A Systematic Review of the Literature, 2000-2012” Handbook of Criminological Theory.

Beaver, Kevin M. and Eric Connolly. 2014. “Key Findings from Biosocial Research and What They Mean for the Future of Criminology” Handbook of Biosocial Criminology.

Wright, John Paul and Kevin M. Beaver. 2013. “Do Families Matter?” The Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory.

Nedelec, Joseph L., Joseph A. Schwartz, and Kevin M. Beaver. 2012. “The Myth of Rational Choice as an Explanation for Criminal Behavior: A Biosocial Critique” Demystifying Crime and Criminal Justice (2nd Edition).

Beaver, Kevin M. and Anthony Walsh. 2011. “Biosocial Criminology” The Ashgate Research Companion to Biosocial Theories of Crime.

Kevin M. Beaver. 2010. “The Biochemistry of Violent Crime” Violent Crime: Clinical and Social Implications.

DeLisi, Matt, Kevin M. Beaver, Michael G. Vaughn, and John Paul Wright. 2010. “Biological/Biosocial Theories” Criminological Theory: Readings and Retrospectives.

Kevin M. Beaver. 2009. “Molecular Genetics and Crime” Biosocial Criminology: New Directions in Theory and Research.

Beaver, Kevin M., J.C. Barnes, Brian B. Boutwell, and Jonathon A. Cooper. 2009. “The Biosocial Foundations to Antisocial Behavior” Delinquency: Causes, Reduction, and Prevention.

Walsh, Anthony and Kevin M. Beaver. 2009. “Biosocial Criminology” Handbook on Criminology and Deviance.

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