Nature and nurture are no longer a debate; we see the two working together in concert to produce a true expression of the individual. The personalities and habits that humans acquire over the course of their lives are as much a biological evolution as they are a social or cultural acclimation. While some people still argue that it's nature or nurture, many people have realized that it must be both. Nature and nurture have shaped who we are and what we become. The question would therefore remain to know which one influences us the most if we become a criminal. These are people who live outside the acceptable social norms of that society and may involve punishment or rehabilitation. The view that people become criminals due to their hereditary factors is not a popular idea among criminologists and has angered many of them. Astonishing discoveries have been made in the field of genetics, which have encouraged biological evaluation in other social sciences. This also led to the emergence of a subfield of criminology called biocriminology. To fully understand what biocriminology is, we must start with its scientific creation in the 1900s. Although it was not originally biocriminology, the strange thing is that this field has been developed almost simultaneously by three different people in three different countries. Benjamin Rush, an American who lived from 1745 to 1813, he was best known as one of the signers of the "Declaration of Independence", he developed what he called moral derangement. Rush had two writings that influenced belief at the time about the cause of criminal behavior "The Influence of the Physical Cause on the Moral Faculty" and "Medical Investigations and Observations on Di...... middle of paper. ..... they say he can't manage his money. If we are biologically predisposed to alcoholism, we are alcoholics. It is no exaggeration to say that people are biologically determined to make bad decisions. The people involved in these cases know what the right thing to do is; they choose to do something else. Works Cited Rush, Benjamin. Medical investigations and observations on mental illnesses. Diss. Philadelphia: Kimber and Richardson, 1812. Print.Holmes Jr, Oiver Wendle. UNITED STATES. Supreme Court. 274 US 200, p. 207. 1927. Print. Hitler, Adolph. My Kampf. Boston, Massachusetts. : Houghton Mifflin, 1927. 392. Print.Rose, Nikolas. Criminal mastermind. 1st. New York: New York University Press, 2008. 200-201. Print.Goodman, Robert. “INTELLIGENCE SCORES AND BEHAVIOR: EVEN A FEW POINTS COUNT.” Crime time. 16.4 (2010): 1. Web. December 9. 2013. .