Biosocial studies of antisocial behavior: A systematic review of interactions between peri/prenatal complications, psychophysiological parameters, and social risk factors

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Heart Rate Reactivity, Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Antisocial Behavior

“…The biosocial perspective may help to explain why disadvantaged neighborhoods have inconsistent effects on children. Biosocial criminologists have identified convincing evidence that biological and social risk factors interact to predict antisocial behavior (reviewed in Raine, 2013; van Hazebroek et al, 2019) although most biosocial research to date has examined family risk factors and has not included neighborhood factors. Within biosocial criminology, heart rate is one of the most extensively studied biological correlates of antisocial behavior, with many studies finding lower resting heart rate and lower heart rate during stress in antisocial individuals (reviewed in Ortiz & Raine, 2004; Portnoy & Farrington, 2015).…”

“…To date, this research has primarily examined interactions between neighborhood features and either family risk factors (e.g., Roche & Leventhal, 2009; Wright & Fagan, 2013) or psychological factors, such as self-control (Zimmerman, 2010; Zimmerman et al, 2015). Relatively less research has examined whether biological factors interact with the neighborhood context, despite the growing body of research showing that family risk factors interact with biological factors to predict crime and antisocial behavior (reviewed in Raine, 2013; van Hazebroek et al, 2019). The purpose of this article is to address this limitation by examining whether a biological factor—heart rate reactivity to stress—moderates the relationship between neighborhood disadvantage and antisocial behavior in a sample of children.…”

Interactions Between Resting Heart Rate and Childhood Risk Factors in Predicting Convictions and Antisocial Personality Scores

“…More comparably with the present research, Van de Weijer et al (2017) in the Netherlands showed that there was intergenerational transmission of convictions for violence only among men with low RHR at Age 18. Van Hazebroek et al (2019) completed a systematic review of biopsychosocial interaction studies and also concluded that it was the combination of social adversity and low RHR that was related to antisocial outcomes.…”

High resting heart rate protects against childhood risk factors in predicting adult psychopathy

“…There have been many biopsychosocial interaction studies (for a systematic review, see Van Hazebroek et al , 2019), but most focus on the combination of social adversity and low RHR in predicting antisocial outcomes. Based on our review above, it is proposed that high RHR might act as a protective factor, but there has not been much research on high RHR functioning as such.…”