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What is the nature versus nurture debate? How is this related to causal explanations of crime and deviancy? There has always been a great deal of controversy over whether inherited genes or the environment influence and affect our personalities, development, behaviour, intelligence and ability. This controversy is known as the nature versus nurture debate. Some people believe that the way we live and behave is a result of our genetic makeup while others believe that it is the environment that shapes us. Social scientists, psychologists and biologists have focused on this debate for centuries. This debate is often over simplified in terms of either/or but over recent years the debate has been tackled in terms of the primary influences on human behaviour of either physiological/biological factors or social/cultural factors (Blackburn, 1993). Deviance consists of those acts, which do not follow the norms and expectations of a particular social group. Deviance...

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