ed 2. A team of criminologists not well versed in genetics us a genome-wide asso

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ed 2. A team of criminologists not well versed in genetics us a genome-wide association study to examine the rootso criminal behavior. They investigated 3,000 adult sibling pairs with decreasing proportions of shared genomes: MZ twins (100 percent), DZ twins (50 percent), non-twin siblings (50 percent), half-siblings (25 percent), and first cousins (12.5 percent). A "delinquency scale" ranked participants' admission of such escalating behaviors as painting graffiti, lying to parents, running away, and stealing. The researchers also classified participants by whether they considered themselves to be "life-course persistents" (LCPs), who've been bad since childhood or "adolescence-limited" (AL) people, who' ve behaved badl only as teens

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Criminal life is not only shoupd be assessed with genetic factor but also the environment make it so .

As far as research is concerned although 65% in avg are liable to lifelong criminal activities but the degree of these varies from mischiefs to lying ...... And 35% showed that if upbringing is done in a decent environment the crimanilty factor can be eliminated as maturity comes after teenhood so therefore ...along with genes the environment of the participant is necessary to notice and also as traits good and bad are inheritable so does the art of mischieveousness .

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