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Same here, I do not agree with the professor claims either not that I am saying that his hypothesis is entirely wrong, but I just don't see how he can just generalized his research findings as the ultimate cause of almost every crime out there “it clearly due to testosterone there is no question in that.” There are more aspects of a person’s life to become an offender; some people like you already said, lack nature and nurture, especially the people who grow up poor, live in bad neighborhoods, abused in some type of way, and associate themselves with non-aspiring group of friends/family. So, it is more than a “behavioral gene” like testosterone to make a person commit a crime. What I did not hear him mentioned or was hoping he would add is

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