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  • Chapter 19 - What the Evolutionary and Cognitive Sciences Offer the Sciences of Crime and Justice

  • Edited by Riadh Abed, Paul St John-Smith
  • Book:
    Evolutionary Psychiatry
    Published online:
    08 September 2022
    Print publication:
    29 September 2022, pp 295-304

  • Summary

    Science has become increasingly interdisciplinary, marked by the rapid expansion of social science fields melding with ‘natural’ sciences previously considered less relevant for the study of humans. Psychology in particular now depends heavily on insights from medicine, biology, sociology, genetics and cognitive science and has done so for years. By grounding itself in evolutionary theory, moreover, psychology has moved towards a more mature science of human mind and behaviour. The crime sciences – criminology and criminal justice – are poised to make similar progress. While already interdisciplinary fields, we make the case that the evolutionary and cognitive sciences can unify existing knowledge about crime and justice, can help to pose new and interesting questions to study and can push the fields forward in ways that will benefit not only the scientific world, but society in general as well.