If you’re intrigued by the article, Behave by Robert Sapolsky is heavy, but doesn’t assume a huge amount of prior knowledge and goes into a whole bunch of environmental (and genetic, and several other) factors that are meaningful predictors of violence and other problematic behavior. He approaches through the lens of a large variety of different fields through the book. Determined is also pretty good, and spends a meaningful portion of the end of the book specifically discussing the relevance to the legal system and other approaches to crime. I prefer Behave, because he doesn’t sell me on his core thesis that free will doesn’t exist, but either works on its own.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
If you’re intrigued by the article, Behave by Robert Sapolsky is heavy, but doesn’t assume a huge amount of prior knowledge and goes into a whole bunch of environmental (and genetic, and several other) factors that are meaningful predictors of violence and other problematic behavior. He approaches through the lens of a large variety of different fields through the book. Determined is also pretty good, and spends a meaningful portion of the end of the book specifically discussing the relevance to the legal system and other approaches to crime. I prefer Behave, because he doesn’t sell me on his core thesis that free will doesn’t exist, but either works on its own.