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"Big Data, Behavioural Genetics and Risk of Future Offending" by Armin Alimardani, Allan McCay et al.

A convergence of trends in assessing the future risk of reoffending could result in morally questionable inputs into the criminal process. Advances in the analysis of DNA and increases in the availability of information about people gleaned from social media might allow for new inferences to be drawn against offenders during the sentencing process. We explore how developments in forensic DNA analysis methods and law enforcement DNA databases in conjunction with information about an offender's developmental environment could lead the prosecution to postulate a high risk of recidivism and thus argue for a longer sentence. We then consider some reasons why such a prosecution strategy might be troubling. In doing so, we focus on issues related to the inferential process, discrimination, privacy and constitutive luck. ....

Behavioural Genetics , Big Data , Dna Databases , Enetics Evidence , Social Media ,

Murderers are a product of their environment and a predisposition to a violence gene

In the mini-series “Defending Jacob,” murder genes were used as evidence in criminal cases. A murder gene is a term used for a link or similarity in the genes of criminals to see if there is something in their DNA that made them more likely to kill. But do these really exist? To what extent. ....

Los Angeles , United States , Karolinska Institutet , Jari Tiihonen , Han Brunner , Ananya Kulkarni , Anusha Subramanian , Sahej Anand , Brettc Haberstick , Carrie Bearden , Department Of Clinical Neuroscience , Senior Research , University Of Colorado , Department Of Psychiatry Biobehavioral Sciences , Institute For Behavioural Genetics , Los Angeles Times , Biobehavioral Sciences , Berkeley Scientific Journal , Senior Research Associate , Behavioural Genetics , Professor Jari Tiihonen , Clinical Neuroscience ,

I Chose Not To Have Children Because Of My Mental Illness

We considered children, but are still only a family of two. We’ve decided that’s a good thing. But sometimes I wonder if that’s enough. If I’m enough. ....

Ayal Schaffer , Holly Stapleton , Department Of Psychiatry , University Of Toronto , Anxiety Disorders Program , Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre , Behavioural Genetics ,

How does a real 'hive mind' work? The secret life of bees explained

How does a real 'hive mind' work? The secret life of bees explained
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How does a real 'hive mind' work? The secret life of bees explained

Bees play a big role in our world as pollinators, but are they endangered? How does a real ‘hive mind’ work? And what’s a waggle dance? ....

United States , New South Wales , Coffs Harbour , Port Of Newcastle , University Of Adelaide , South Australia , Patrick Oconnor , Benjamin Oldroyd , Judy Wu , Erin Jonasson , Apis Mellifera , Cooper Schouten , Albert Einstein , Liz Barbour , Tobias Smith , Sasha Mikheyev , Centre For Global Food , Southern Cross University , Australian National University , University Of Sydney , Research Centre For Honey Bee Products , New South , Southern Cross , Nobel Prize , Adelaide Hills , Cooperative Research Centre ,