RJA #5a) Finding Reference Articles

I found my first article on Suite101.com on September 16th, 2009: And my keywords were criminal behavior

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This article was very helpful for me it gave me information on how criminal behavior can be considered nature and nurture. It described how the brain works and how criminal behavior is effected on how the brain is thinking. Which I thought was very useful information and a good point. This article also talked about how living in a certain enviornment can shape a persons feelings and thoughts, and lead them into doing certain actions.

RESOURCES: Yongue, Judith S. (1999). Psychopathology and Violent Crime. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 28, 2145.

Katz, Janet. & Marsh Frank H. (1985). Biology, Crime and Ethics: A Study of Biological Explanations for Criminal Behavior. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing Company.
Brain Explorer. (2001) Lundbeck Institute, Denmark Retrieved on March 23, 2002 from http://www.luinst.org/brainexplorer/inde...

Child and Adolescent Violence Research at the NIMH. (2000). National Institute of Mental Health, Retrieved on March 23, 2002 from http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/violenc...

The World of Abnormal Psychology: Looking at Abnormal Behavior. (1992) Volume 1., The Annenberg/CPB collection

RJA #4c) Checking Research Quetions

http://narina86.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-3c-developing-research-question.html#comment-form



http://barbaraeng1020blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-3c-developing-research-question_07.html#comment-form

RJA #4b) Writing Search Strings

SEARCH ENGINE MATH & BOOLEAN

Criminal+behavior+environment

criminal+behavior+hereditary+parents+genes

criminal+actions+learn+enviornment




Crime*

AND

Behave* actions


Environment

AND

Crime*


Crime

And

Hereditary

RJA #4a) Generating Key Words

IS CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR EFFECTED BY GENES A PERSON INHERITED OR AN ENVIRONMENT A PERSON IS SURROUNDED BY?



FO: crime, crimes, criminally,criminality,
behave, behaves, behavioral,
genetic, genetically, genetics, genesis, genitive
environmental, environment's,

RE: law, judicial, prison,
pyschology, rules, standards, expectations,
DNA, RNA,
bad enviornments vs. good enviornments, child abuse,


ST: caught, corrupt, crooked, wicked, dirty, senseless, wrong, convict, gangster,
act, action, address, attitude, expression, performance, presence,
RNA, chromosone, genetic code, hereditary, traits,
backround, habitat, surroundings, terriotory, turf,


LOG: bad>>law>>crime>>criminal>>murder>>1st degree murder>>
act>>personality>>rules>>behave>>actions>>
science>>herediatary>>genes>>
places>>enviornment>>home>>

RJA #3c) Devolping Research Quetion

Is Criminal behavior passed on through genes from a parent?

Is criminal behavior effected by nurture or nature?

Does drug abuse affect a person into commiting a criminal act?

RJA #3b) Narrowing Research Topic

While going through and seeing the different issues nature vs. nurture has a role in I decided that I want to narrow my topic into choosing that how criminal behavior has more to do with nature vs. nurture. Then I realized that was still broad and can be narrowed down a little bit more I decided I should pick what type of criminal behavior such as seriol killer, child malestation, drug abuse, or even theft. So I know I have to narrow it down to one of them and I was thinking about the child malestation because so many people dont understand why child malesters feel the way they do and it would be a great way to debate whether it is hereditary or enviornmental. It could play a role in both but it will be my job to figure which side is more effective.

RJA #3a) Exploring Research Topic

While exploring my research topic of where nature vs nurture plays a role in different areas such as alcoholism and criminal behavior. I found that there are alot of traits that are hereditary that have been proven. I also found out that physical traits are hereditary. I also found out that both play a role in human devolpment but some believe nature plays more of a role than nurture and vis versa. I learned that personality mostly comes from the enviornment you are raised up in and that intellgience is hereditary and that if your parents are smart you are more than likely to become smart too. Some place I looked at was about.com I also found out that being addicted to alcohol could be hereditary because some peoples stigma is strong enough where a pereson could indure the alcohol into there system. I also found that criminal behavior can be hereditary because if a person is angry the genes can pass on and the baby could feel angry when they are born and go on as they grow up. But criminal behavior can also be enviornmental because if a person is grown up in a violent enviornment they are most likely to become violent themselves. i found this information on suite101.com.