If you’re intrigued by the article and want to know more, Behave by Robert Sapolsky is heavy, but doesn’t assume a huge amount of prior knowledge and goes into a whole bunch of environmental (and genetic, and several other) factors that are meaningful predictors of violence and other problematic behavior. He approaches through the lens of a large variety of different fields through the book. Determined is also pretty good, and spends a meaningful portion of the end of the book specifically discussing the relevance to the legal system and other approaches to crime. I prefer Behave, because he doesn’t sell me on his core thesis that free will doesn’t exist in Determined, but either works on its own. They’re both right near the top of my list of favorite books on what makes us tick.
If you’re intrigued by the article and want to know more, Behave by Robert Sapolsky is heavy, but doesn’t assume a huge amount of prior knowledge and goes into a whole bunch of environmental (and genetic, and several other) factors that are meaningful predictors of violence and other problematic behavior. He approaches through the lens of a large variety of different fields through the book. Determined is also pretty good, and spends a meaningful portion of the end of the book specifically discussing the relevance to the legal system and other approaches to crime. I prefer Behave, because he doesn’t sell me on his core thesis that free will doesn’t exist in Determined, but either works on its own. They’re both right near the top of my list of favorite books on what makes us tick.