Criminology has produced more than a century of informative research on the social correlates of criminal behavior. Recently, a growing body of theoretical and empirical work has begun to apply evolutionary principles, particularly from life history theory (LHT), to the study of crime. As this body of research continues to grow, it is important that work in this area synthesizes evolutionary principles with the decades of sociological research on the correlates of crime. The paper aims to discuss these issues.,The current paper reviews the brief history of research applying life history concepts to criminology, providing an overview of the underlying framework, exploring examples of empirically testable and tested hypotheses that have been derived from the theory, discussing cautions and criticisms of life history research, and discussing how this area of research can be further integrated with existing theory.,A growing body of research has, with relative consistency, associated indicators of a faster life history strategy with aggression and violence in humans and across the animal kingdom. Research into these associations is still vulnerable to genetic confounding and more research with genetically sensitive designs is needed. The use of hypotheses informed by evolutionary insight and tested with genetically sensitive designs provides the best option for understanding how environmental factors can have an impact on violent and criminal behavior.,The current paper provides an updated review of the growing application of LHT to the study of human behavior and acknowledges criticisms and areas of concern that need to be considered when forming hypotheses for research.

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统一犯罪理论和犯罪与暴力的社会关联：问题与解决方案

犯罪学对犯罪行为的社会相关性进行了一个多世纪的有益研究。最近，越来越多的理论和实证研究工作开始将进化原理，尤其是生命历史理论（LHT）的进化原理应用于犯罪研究。随着这一研究机构的不断发展，重要的是，该领域的工作必须结合数十年来对犯罪相关性的社会学研究综合进化原理。本文旨在讨论这些问题。本篇论文回顾了将生命史概念应用于犯罪学的简要研究历史，概述了其基本框架，探索了从理论中得出的经验可检验和检验假设的例子，并进行了讨论。生命史研究的注意和批评，越来越多的研究机构以相对一致的方式，结合了人类和整个动物界的侵略和暴力行为，制定了更快的生命史策略的相关指标。对这些关联的研究仍然容易受到基因混杂的影响，需要进行更多具有遗传敏感性设计的研究。通过进化洞察力进行假设并经过基因敏感性设计检验的假设的使用为理解环境因素如何对暴力和犯罪行为产生影响提供了最佳选择。