Criminal Genetics: Good Or Bad?

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Are individuals really born with criminal genetics that over time will cause a person’s development to change and become evil? This is a challenging question, and there are numerous possible answers to this question. Researchers have performed countless exploration projects and scans of the violator’s brains, which could have produced evidence that there is some sort of element in the brain, that’s not normal.
Personally, I am not totally convinced that people are born to become evil, although I do believe that some people are born with a hormone that is dormant and could help sway the bodies chemical makeup to be altered. The question then becomes, what would it take to trigger this hormone? I have come across an article about a German neurologist

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