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Professor Emeritus, 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.

Present	Emeritus Professor, Boise State University ‐ Department of 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)

Seksuele Strategieën en Geweldpleging bij Noord-Amerikaanse Universiteitsstudenten: Een Evolutionair Perspectief (Anthony Walsh, Lee Ellis and Donald Burke) Tijdschrift voor Criminologie (2005)

Ideology: Criminology's Achilles' Heel? (Anthony Walsh and Lee Ellis) Quarterly Journal of Ideology (2004)

Few things prevent the accumulation of reliable knowledge more surely than ideological intransigence (Blankenship & Wachholz, 1989). Sociopolitical ideology forms, shapes, and colors our concepts of crime and its causes in ways that lead to ...

Gender Differences in Sexual Dreaming, Disinhibition, and Number of Coital Partners (Anthony Walsh) Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology (2002)

This study attempts to determine if various self-reported evaluations of a person's dreams can explain significant unique variance in the number of coital partners he or she has experienced. A number of gender differences were ...

Behavior Genetics and Anomie/Strain Theory (Anthony Walsh) Criminology (2000)

Criminology is in need of conceptual revival, and behavior genetics can provide the concepts and research design to accomplish this. Behavior genetics is a biologically-friendly environmental discipline that often tells us more about environmental effects ...

Evolutionary Psychology and the Origins of Justice (Anthony Walsh) Justice Quarterly (2000)

Justice defines our discipline in both name and substance; yet its origin is a neglected topic. I explore the origins of the human “sense of justice” from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. My thesis is ...

The Effects of Maltreatment and Family Structure on Minor and Serious Delinquency (Cary Heck and Anthony Walsh) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (2000)

This study explores the influence of maltreatment on serious violent and property delinquency as well as on minor misbehavior offenses among a sample of White male delinquents. A recent influential study concluded that this relationship ...

Human Reproductive Strategies and Life History Theory (Anthony Walsh) The Role of Theory in Sex Research (2000)

The only scientifically valid theory of basic behavioral design for both sexes of any animal species is evolution by natural selection. (The only alternative is purposeful design by a divine creator, and that is not ...

Political Ideology and American Criminologists’ Explanations for Criminal Behavior (Anthony Walsh and Lee Ellis) The Criminologist (1999)

Life History Theory and Female Readers of Pornography (Anthony Walsh) Personality and Individual Differences (1999)

This study explores the possibility that female interest in pornography might signal amore male-like reproductive strategy. According to life history theory, early attachmentexperiences have the effect of setting reproductive strategies as restrictive or unrestrictive. It ...

Criminologists’ Opinions about Causes and Theories of Crime (Anthony Walsh and Lee Ellis) The Criminologist (1999)

Religion and Hypertension: Testing Alternative Explanations Among Immigrants (Anthony Walsh) Behavioral Medicine (1998)

A number of researchers have found that religious commitment has a salutary effect on blood pressure levels. Levin and Vanderpool's review of several of these studies led them to offer some methodological, epistemological, and conceptual ...

Methodological Individualism and Vertical Integration in the Social Sciences (Anthony Walsh) Behavior and Philosophy (1997)

This paper argues against the false dichotomy between reductionism and holism in the social sciences. I make the points that reductionism is the mark of a mature science, that the social sciences will never progress ...

Gene-Based Evolutionary Theories in Criminology (Lee Ellis and Anthony Walsh) Criminology (1997)

In the past 20 years, several theories of criminal (and antisocial) behavior have been proposed from an evolutionary perspective, some of which specifically stipulate that people vary in their genetic dispositions toward criminality. It is ...

The Neurobiology of Nurturance, Evolutionary Expectations, and Crime Control (Anthony Walsh and Lee Ellis) Politics and the Life Sciences (1997)

Bryan Vila has written an excellent analysis and rationale for the implementation of nurturant policies as part of a balanced approach to crime control. We support these humanistic recommendations, and are pleased to note that ...

Self-Victimization Disclosures of Juvenile Sex Offenders (Kerry Lindorfer and Anthony Walsh) Corrective and Social Psychiatry and Journal of Behavior Methods and Therapy (1996)

While the rate of convictions has not kept pace with the increased reporting of juvenile sex crimes, the rate of convictions has overwhelmed available resources for monitoring and treating juvenile sex offenders. Between 1982 and ...

Genetic and Cytogenetic Intersex Anomalies: Can They Help Us to Understand Gender Differences in Deviant Behavior? (Anthony Walsh) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (1995)

Across time and national boundaries males have been shown to be far more sociolegally deviant than females. Sociological criminology's faith in environmentalism has thwarted its efforts to provide theoretically meaningful explanations of this phenomenon. Biocriminality ...

Parental Attachment, Drug Use, and Facultative Sexual Strategies (Anthony Walsh) Social Biology (1995)

It has been asserted that drug use and sexual promiscuity share a common etiology in poor parental attachment. A study explores this notion among 480 college students.

Physiological and Psychosocial Assessment and Treatment of Sex Offenders: A Comprehensive Victim-Oriented Program (Robert L. Marsh and Anthony Walsh) Journal of Offender Rehabilitation (1995)

This paper attempts to define the "optimal" sex offender treatment program based on a review of the empirical literature and on the authors' clinical experience with sex offenders. An important first step in any treatment ...

Homosexual and Heterosexual Child Molestation: Case Characteristics and Sentencing Differentials (Anthony Walsh) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (1994)

This article compares case characteristics and sentencing differentials of homosexual and heterosexual child molesters. It is asserted that sex offenders are the most despised of all criminals and that among sex offenders none are more ...

Love Styles, Masculinity/Femininity, Physical Attractiveness, and Sexual Behavior: A Test of Evolutionary Theory (Anthony Walsh) Ethology and Sociobiology (1993)

This study explores sexual behavior, in the form of number of sexual partners, from an evolutionary perspective. Evolved phylogenetic traits result in males being more sexually promiscuous than females. However, males and females do not ...

The P > V Sign in Corrections: Is it a Useful Diagnostic Tool? (Anthony Walsh) Criminal Justice and Behavior (1992)

Doubt has been cast recently on the usefulness of the Wechsler P > V sign test because of a failure to find significant correlations between it and many personality traits measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic ...

Drug Use and Sexual Behavior: Users, Experimenters, and Abstainers (Anthony Walsh) The Journal of Social Psychology (1992)

Genetic and Environmental Explanations of Juvenile Violence in Advantaged and Disadvantaged Environments (Anthony Walsh) Aggressive Behavior (1992)

This study tests the proposition derived from behavioral genetic theory that genetics and environmental variables have different effects across different environments. I examine the effects of intellectual imbalance [performance IQ (P) significantly greater than verbal ...

Self-Esteem and Sexual Behavior: Exploring Gender Differences (Anthony Walsh) Sex Roles (1991)

Previous studies have shown that the relationship between sexual permissiveness and self-esteem fluctuates with the social climate. The present study found that high self-esteem males and females had a significantly greater number of sexual partners ...

The Biological Relationship Between Sex and Love (Anthony Walsh) Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology (1991)

From the perspective of the individual human being, love and sex are certainly distinct phenomena (although a happy concomitance is often observed) that can be, and often are, pursued independently of one another. Taking a ...