Crime itself, no, but attributes that make one more likely to engage in crime, yes. Inability to delay gratification, inability to think in multiple steps and parallel alternative consequences, lack of filtering of sensory inputs that leads to a pause and think response, instead of immediate reaction, lack of attributes that lead to employ ability, and on and on. No one of these attributes makes one a criminal, but each nudges the statistical likelihood a little further in that direction.
[[Inability to delay gratification]]
Inability? Or Unwillingness?
[[inability to think in multiple steps and parallel alternative consequences,]]
Again, Inability? Or intellectual laziness? if it is inability, then it indicates a mentally deficient person- I think the article is referring to mentally competent people, and suggesting they ‘can’t help their actions’ because ‘they have a defective gene’
[[No one of these attributes makes one a criminal, but each nudges the statistical likelihood a little further in that direction.]]
True- as people with these conditions aren’t always criminals- it would be interestingness to see what % of folks in these categories are criminals compared to general population-