If criminal behaviour is genetic, should it be punished?

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Deborah Denno discusses the concept of a “crime gene,” with the Winnipeg Free Press and how the explanation “my genes made me do it,” is generating novel challenges in criminal prosecutions.

According to Deborah Denno at Fordham Law School, “many people who commit homicides also have… relatives who are incarcerated.”

She explained that “genetic mitigation” can show that an offender might not be responsible for his actions.

Read the entire Winnipeg Free Press story.

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