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Professor, Department of Criminal Justice

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.

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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.

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Criminology and Criminal Justice

Biosocial Criminology

2014 University Foundation Scholar Award, Boise State University
Nominated - Fellow of the American Society of Criminology for Contributions to Biosocial Criminology - 2008
CSSPA Annual Faculty Award for Research - 2007
American Criminal Justice Society - Book of the Year Runner-up - 2003

Law and Justice
Public Policy and Criminal Behavior
Psychobiology of Love and Human Behavior
Psychopaths and their Crimes
Theories of Crime
Advanced Research Statistics

E-mail: twalsh@boisestate.edu

Articles (81)

Ideology and Intolerance: The Case of Colonialism (Anthony Walsh) Journal of Ideology (2022)

Ideology has a stranglehold on academia as much as anywhere else. Numerous authors have noted that liberal/progressives dominate the discourse in our universities and are loathe to tolerate any position that does not toe the ...

Ideology in Physics: Ontological Naturalism and Theism Confront the Big Bang, Cosmic Fine-Tuning, and the Multiverse of M-Theory (Anthony Walsh) Journal of Ideology (2018)

The most profound questions that philosophers and scientists have asked across the centuries have been metaphysical and existential, such as “What is the meaning and purpose of life, why are we here, and why is ...

Early Puberty, School Context, and Delinquency Among South Korean Girls (Hye-Sook Park, Ilhong Yun and Anthony Walsh) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (2017)

Compared with chronological age, criminologists have paid less attention to the biological sense of age typically expressed by pubertal development. Studies that have examined pubertal timing’s effects on delinquency have almost exclusively been conducted in ...

Ideology, Race, and the Death Penalty: “Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics” in Advocacy Research (Anthony Walsh and Virginia Hatch) Journal of Ideology (2017)

We use the literature on race in death penalty to illustrate the hold that ideology has on researchers and journalists alike when a social issue is charged with emotional content. We note particularly how statistical ...

General Theory Versus ENA Theory: Comparing Their Predictive Accuracy and Scope (Lee Ellis, Anthony Hoskin, Richard Hartley, et al.) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (2015)

General theory attributes criminal behavior primarily to low self-control, whereas evolutionary neuroandrogenic (ENA) theory envisions criminality as being a crude form of status-striving promoted by high brain exposure to androgens. General theory predicts that self-control ...

Tragic Choices in Ideological Battles: Gay Rights Versus Religious Freedom (Anthony Walsh) Journal of Religion & Society (2015)

A major domestic issue in the United States today is the battle between gay rights and religious liberty. It is an issue often framed as a zero-sum battle where one side must lose and be ...

The Relationship Between Academic Achievement and Likelihood of Police Arrest Among Delinquents (Ilhong Yun, Jinseong Cheong and Anthony Walsh) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (2014)

Drawing upon a recent study on the association between low self-control and differential responses from the criminal justice system, this study examined whether academic performance, a construct linked to self-control, was also associated with the ...

Schizophrenia: Causes, Crime, and Implications for Criminology and Criminal Justice (Anthony Walsh and Ilhong Yun) International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice (2013)

This paper is aimed at criminologists and criminal justicians seeking to understand their role in educating law enforcement and correctional personnel who must deal with the mentally ill. It is motivated by William Johnson's (2011) ...

Drugs, Crime, and the Epigenetics of Hedonic Allostasis (Anthony Walsh, Hailey Johnson and Jonathan D. Bolen) Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (2012)

Researchers have found staggering numbers of drug addicts among incarcerated populations and have conceded that drug abuse is an important correlate of deviant behavior, but few included an understanding of the biological process leading to ...

Race and Criminology in the Age of Genomic Science (Anthony Walsh and Ilhong Yun) Social Science Quarterly (2011)

Objective. To survey the contemporary literature in the social and biological sciences relevant to race that examines both the reality and the usefulness of the concept. Race is considered a major correlate of criminal behavior, ...

The Stability of Self-Control Among South Korean Adolescents (Ilhong Yun and Anthony Walsh) 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 key hypotheses—the stability of self-control hypothesis—has received little attention from researchers, and no known study has examined the applicability of ...

Genetic and Environmental Influences in Delinquent Peer Affiliation: From the Peer Network Approach (Ilhong Yun, Jinseong Cheong and Anthony Walsh) Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice (2011)

Mainstream criminologists have long maintained that delinquent peer group formation is largely a function of family-environmental variables, and have ignored self-selection into peer groups because of genetic proclivities. A small number of recent studies, however, ...

ADHD and Criminality: A Primer on the Genetic, Neurobiological, Evolutionary, and Treatment Literature for Criminologists (Catrina M. Schilling, Anthony Walsh and Ilhong Yun) Journal of Criminal Justice (2011)

This paper is a primer on ADHD and its major comorbidities for criminologists unfamiliar with the genetic, neurobiological, and evolutionary literature on the subject. With Unnerver, Cullen & Pratt (2003) we are surprised that criminologists ...

Developmental Neurobiology from Embryonic Neuron Migration to Adolescent Synaptic Pruning: Relevance for Antisocial Behavior (Anthony Walsh and Ilhong Yun) Criminological Theory: A Life-Course Approach (2011)

Philosophical and Ideological Underpinnings of Corrections (Anthony Walsh and Ilhong Yun) Critical Issues in Crime and Justice: Thought, Policy, and Practice (2011)

Is Criminology Moving Toward a Paradigm Shift?: Evidence from a Survey of the American Society of Criminology (Jonathon A. Cooper, Anthony Walsh and Lee Ellis) Journal of Criminal Justice Education (2010)

Ideology forms and colors our attitudes and values in ways that lead to a tendency to accept or reject data according to how well or how poorly they cohere with that ideology. Previous research has ...

The Cost of Substance Abuse: The Use of Administrative Data to Investigate Treatment Benefits in a Rural Mountain State (Peter A. Collins, Jonathon A. Cooper, Brady Horn, et al.) Western Criminology Review (2010)

Findings from cost-benefit evaluations have suggested that the cost of substance abuse treatment is covered by the economic benefits to society. In this research we measure the economic impact of substance abuse treatment in a ...

Criminologists’ Opinions about Causes and Theories of Crime and Delinquency: A Follow-Up (Lee Ellis, Jonathon A. Cooper and Anthony Walsh) The Criminologist (2008)

Differentiating Antisocial Personality Disorder, Psychopathy, and Sociopathy: Evolutionary, Genetic, Neurological, and Sociological Considerations (Anthony Walsh and Huei-Hsia Wu) Criminal Justice Studies (2008)

This paper examines the separate but overlapping constructs of psychopathy, sociopathy, and antisocial personality disorder from evolutionary, genetic, neurological, and sociological perspectives. Evidence indicates that psychopaths are a stable proportion of any population, can be ...

A Gene‐Based Evolutionary Explanation for the Association Between Criminal Involvement and Number of Sex Partners (Kevin M. Beaver, John Paul Wright and Anthony Walsh) Biodemography and Social Biology (2008)

Empirical research has revealed a positive relationship between number of sex partners and involvement in antisocial behaviors. Most attempts to explain this association have taken an evolutionary perspective and argued that the same traits (e.g., ...

Predicting Public Opinion about Juvenile Waivers (I-Fang Jan, Jeremy Ball and Anthony Walsh) Criminal Justice Policy Review (2008)

The accountability movement of the juvenile justice system in the late 1980s and early 1990s encouraged more punitive practices by juvenile justice professionals. Public opinion was strong during this time. The attitudes about the juvenile ...

A Gene × Gene Interaction Between DRD2 and DRD4 is Associated with Conduct Disorder and Antisocial Behavior in Males (Kevin M. Beaver, John Paul Wright, Matt DeLisi, et al.) Behavioral and Brain Functions (2007)

Background: Antisocial behaviors are complex polygenic phenotypes that are due to a multifactorial arrangement of genetic polymorphisms. Little empirical research, however, has been undertaken that examines gene × gene interactions in the etiology of conduct ...

Teaching Statistical Interaction in Anova and Ols Regression in the Context of Ideology in Criminal Justice Processing (Huei-Hsia Wu and Anthony Walsh) Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology (2007)

African Americans and Serial Killing in the Media: The Myth and the Reality (Anthony Walsh) Homicide Studies (2005)

There were many expressions of shock and surprise voiced in the media in 2002 when the “D.C. Sniper” turned out to be two Black males. Two of the stereotypes surrounding serial killers are that they ...

Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? (Huei-Hsia Wu and Anthony Walsh) Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology (2005)

This study explores the association between time spent reading romance novels and female sexuality. The respondents were 436 white female college students, age 18-47. Several variables of interest are used to indicate sexuality: 1) age ...