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“When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.” (Hannah Arendt) Laŭ la krio de la koko tuj spirito ĉiu, kie ajn li vagas, rapidas hejmen (L.L. Zamenhof)

  • Gènes de violence : Naît-on criminel ? - 20minutes.fr
    http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/1469903-20141028-genes-violence-nait-criminel

    Naît-on criminel à cause de gènes ou le devient-on en raison des circonstances et de son enfance ? Le débat est relancé par une étude, publiée aujourd’hui dans la revue spécialisée Molecular Psychiatry, qui met en lumière la présence de deux gènes mutés que l’on retrouverait avec une « fréquence nettement plus élevée » chez des délinquants violents.

    Encore de la littérature pour donner bonne conscience à l’oligarchie quand elle gère les comportements qualifiés d’associaux par la force brute . Je serais curieux de savoir comment a été composé le panel qui a servi à l’étude.

    Les chercheurs d’Europe et des Etats-Unis qui signent cette recherche disent avoir pris en compte des facteurs environnementaux -antécédents d’abus de substances (drogues, alcool...), personnalité antisociale et maltraitance dans l’enfance-, sans que cela modifie le résultat.

    #scientisme #bullshit #répression

    • Le résumé, le reste est derrière #paywall.

      Molecular Psychiatry - Abstract of article: Genetic background of extreme violent behavior
      http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/mp2014130a.html

      In developed countries, the majority of all violent crime is committed by a small group of antisocial recidivistic offenders, but no genes have been shown to contribute to recidivistic violent offending or severe violent behavior, such as homicide. Our results, from two independent cohorts of Finnish prisoners, revealed that a monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) low-activity genotype (contributing to low dopamine turnover rate) as well as the CDH13 gene (coding for neuronal membrane adhesion protein) are associated with extremely violent behavior (at least 10 committed homicides, attempted homicides or batteries). No substantial signal was observed for either MAOA or CDH13 among non-violent offenders, indicating that findings were specific for violent offending, and not largely attributable to substance abuse or antisocial personality disorder. These results indicate both low monoamine metabolism and neuronal membrane dysfunction as plausible factors in the etiology of extreme criminal violent behavior, and imply that at least about 5–10% of all severe violent crime in Finland is attributable to the aforementioned MAOA and CDH13 genotypes

    • Ce genre d’étude est visiblement déjà utilisé lors de procès.

      Can Your Genes Make You Murder ?
      http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128043329

      A jury was asked to weigh genetic evidence in the case against Bradley Waldroup, accused of murder and attempted murder. A forensic psychiatrist testified that Waldroup carried a gene associated with violence.

      My Genes Did It !
      http://www.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/my-genes-did-it-247951.html

      Bourassa was found guilty of capital murder, but was not sentenced to death; he got life in prison without parole. The relatively lenient verdict in Bourassa’s trial was the result of a criminal defense argument that has, in recent years, become de rigueur in capital cases nationwide: shifting the blame for behavior, just ever so slightly, away from the individual defendant, and toward uncontrollable biological factors.