PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN ON HERITABILITY STUDIES: BIOSOCIAL CRIMINOLOGY IN THE POSTGENOMIC ERA

• Published date: 01 November 2014
• Author: CALLIE H. BURT,RONALD L. SIMONS
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12050
• Date: 01 November 2014

CORRECTION

PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN ON HERITABILITY

STUDIES: BIOSOCIAL CRIMINOLOGY IN THE

POSTGENOMIC ERA

CALLIEH.BURT

1and RONALD L. SIMONS2

1School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University

2Department of Sociology, University of Georgia

In the May 2014 article in Criminology, “Pulling Back the Curtain on Heritability Stud-

ies: Biosocial Criminology in the Postgenomic Era” (Burt and Simons, 2014), we miscited

a quote in such a way that it appears as an intentional misrepresentation. In actuality, it

was an error that arose when shortening the article and moving back and forth from para-

phrasing to selecting from several different quotations that were originally presented in

the text. This quote appeared on p. 236: “Statements that ignore the EEA and its potential

violation, such as ‘the only reason MZ twins should be more similar than DZ twin pairs

is because they share twice as much genetic material’ (e.g., Beaver, 2011b: 86; Beaver,

Ferguson, and Lynn-Whaley, 2010).” Beaver (2011 [listed as “2011b” in the published

article]) was an incorrect attribution for this quote, which was actually a combination of

two: (1) Beaver, Ferguson, and Lynn-Whaley (2010: 1049): “The only reason that MZ

twins should be more similar to each other . .. than DZ twins is because they share twice

as much genetic material” (where the ellipses refer to “on a measure of self-control”), and

(2) Beaver et al. (2009: 225): “Both DZ and MZ twins, however, share the same environ-

ments. As a result, the only reason that MZ twins should be more similar to each other

than DZ twins is because they share more genetic material.” We are grateful to be able

to correct our (careless) mistake on the record, and we sincerely apologize for the error

and any confusion it caused.

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