Dr. Anthony Walsh has been a Professor of Criminal Justice at Boise State University since 1984, after earning a Ph.D. in Criminology from Bowling Green State University. His research in criminology, with emphasis on biosocial theories, has resulted in many publications and presentations. Dr. Walsh also serves as a manuscript reviewer and consulting editor for numerous journals, and is a guest editor for Biosocial Criminology for the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice.
Articles
The Stability of Self-Control Among South Korean Adolescents (with Ilhong Yun), International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (2011)
Gottfredson and Hirschi’s General Theory of Crime has been widely tested. Yet, one of their...
Genetic and Environmental Influences in Delinquent Peer Affiliation: From the Peer Network Approach (with Ilhong Yun and Jinseong Cheong), Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice (2011)
Mainstream criminologists have long maintained that delinquent peer group formation is largely a function of...
ADHD and Criminality: A Primer on the Genetic, Neurobiological, Evolutionary, and Treatment Literature for Criminologists (with Catrina M. Schilling and Ilhong Yun), Journal of Criminal Justice (2011)
This paper is a primer on ADHD and its major comorbidities for criminologists unfamiliar with...
Is Criminology Moving Toward a Paradigm Shift?: Evidence from a Survey of the American Society of Criminology (with Jonathon A. Cooper and Lee Ellis), Journal of Criminal Justice Education (2010)
Ideology forms and colors our attitudes and values in ways that lead to a tendency...
The Cost of Substance Abuse: The Use of Administrative Data to Investigate Treatment Benefits in a Rural Mountain State (with Peter A. Collins, Jonathon A. Cooper, Brady Horn, Mary K. Stohr, Lisa Bostaph, and Edward T. Baker), Western Criminology Review (2010)
Findings from cost-benefit evaluations have suggested that the cost of substance abuse treatment is covered...
Books
The Neurobiology of Criminal Behavior: Gene-Brain-Culture Interaction (with Jonathan D. Bolen), Faculty Authored Books (2012)
Explores criminal behaviour from various aspects of Tinbergen's Four Questions. This book examines the neurobiology...
Feminist Criminology through a Biosocial Lens, Faculty Authored Books (2011)
The gender ratio problem (why always and everywhere males commit more criminal acts than females)...
Social Class and Crime: A Biosocial Approach, Faculty Authored Books (2011)
Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception....
Contributions to Books
Social Class and Criminal Behavior through a Biosocial Lens (with David G. Mueller), [The Ashgate] Research Companion to Biosocial Theories of Crime (2011)
The relationship between social class (socioeconomic states--SES), and criminal behavior has been central to sociological...
Developmental Neurobiology from Embryonic Neuron Migration to Adolescent Synaptic Pruning: Relevance for Antisocial Behavior (with Ilhong Yun), Criminological Theory: A Life-Course Approach (2011)
Philosophical and Ideological Underpinnings of Corrections (with Ilhong Yun), Critical Issues in Crime and Justice : Thought, Policy, and Practice (2011)
Genes, Evolution, and Crime (with Lee Ellis), Criminological Theory: Past to Present Essential Readings (2010)
Crazy by Design: A Biosocial Approach to the Age-Crime Curve, Biosocial Criminology: New Directions in Theory and Research (2009)
The sudden upsurge in antisocial behavior that occurs among children entering the second decade of...
Presentations
The Heritability of Common Risk and Protective Factors to Crime and Delinquency, American Criminological Society - Annual Meeting (2010)