Crime in Huntington’s disease

Discussion of the relative contributions of nature and nurture to development of personality is an old and controversial issue that has been given new life with the development of the field of behavioural genetics.1 In this context criminal behaviour represents an area where debate over the role of genetic with respect to environmental aetiologies is increasingly active. The paper by Jensen et al (this volume, pp 467−471) contributes to this debate with a stated aim of evaluating “the relative importance of the psychosocial environment and of gene coding for Huntington’s disease on the development of criminal behaviour in patients with Huntington’s …