Criminal offending as part of an alternative reproductive strategy: Investigating evolutionary hypotheses using Swedish total population data

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 481-488

  Yao, Shuyang ^a   Långström, Niklas ^a   Temrin, Hans ^b   Walum, Hasse ^a,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisocial behavior; Criminality; Mating strategy; Pair bonding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908021005     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.06.007     Document Type: Article

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