Handedness, criminality, and sexual offending
@article{Bogaert2001HandednessCA,
title={Handedness, criminality, and sexual offending},
author={A. F. Bogaert},
journal={Neuropsychologia},
year={2001},
volume={39},
pages={465-469}
}A very large database was used to investigate whether men with a history of criminality and/or sexual offending have a higher incidence of nonright-handedness (NRH) relative to a control sample of nonoffender men. The sample (N>8000) comprised interviews by investigators at the Kinsey Institute for Sex and Reproduction in Indiana. The general offender group and a subsample of sex offenders (e.g. pedophiles) had a significantly higher rate of NRH relative to the control (nonoffender) men. In… CONTINUE READING
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