Nature and nurture are no longer a debate; we see the two working together in concert to produce a genuine expression of the individual. The personalities and habits that human beings acquire in their lives represent both a biological evolution and a social or cultural acclimatization. While some people still argue that it is nature or nurture, many people have come to the conclusion that it must be both. Both nature and nurture have developed who we are and what we become. The question would then remain as to which of the two would affect us more if we became a criminal. By this we mean people who live outside the acceptable social norms of that society which may result in punishment or rehabilitation. The impression that people become criminals because of their hereditary factor has not been a popular idea among criminologists and has aroused anger among many of them. There have been surprising discoveries in genetics that have encouraged biological evaluation in other social sciences. This also led to the emergence of a subfield of criminology called Biocriminology. To get a good look at what Biocriminology is we must start with its scientific beginning in 1900. Although it was not initially called Biocriminology, the strange thing is that the field was developed almost simultaneously by three different people in three different countries. Benjamin Rush, an American who lived from 1745 to 1813, was best known for being a signer of the "Declaration of Independence" and developed what he called moral imbalance. Rush had two writings that influenced the belief of the time of the cause of criminal behavior “The Influence of 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 not far-fetched to say that people are biologically determined to make bad decisions. The people involved in the cases know what the right thing to do is; they choose to do something else. Works Cited Rush, Benjamin. Investigations and medical observations on diseases of the mind. Diss. Philadelphia: Kimber and Richardson, 1812. Print.Holmes Jr, Oiver Wendle. United States. Supreme Court. 274 US 200, at 207. 1927. Print.Hitler, Adolph. My field. Boston, Massachusetts. : Hough ton Mifflin , 1927. 392. Print.Rose , Nikolas. Criminal brain. 1st. New York: New York University Press, 2008. 200-201. Print.Goodman, Robert. "INTELLIGENCE AND BEHAVIOR SCORES: EVEN A FEW POINTS MATTER." Times of the crime. 16.4 (2010): 1. Web. 9 December. 2013. .