Authors: Andrea Antonilli
Abstract
focusing on the processes through which crime is increasingly framed in biological terms. Starting from key contributions in the field, in-cluding Adrian Raine’s The Anatomy of Violence, the analysis exam-ines the epistemological, political, and ethical implications of the bi-ologization of crime, highlighting how this perspective reshapes con-temporary mechanisms of control and punitive rationalities. Drawing on critical theories of power, security, and social control, the article argues that neurocriminology does not constitute a neutral scientific turn, but rather a new mode of governing deviance grounded in pre-diction, medicalization, and the naturalization of inequality. In con-clusion, it reaffirms the need for a sociological perspective capable of restoring to the understanding of crime its political, moral, and rela-tional dimensions.
Keywords: Neurocriminology, biopolitics, social control, power
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ANDREA ANTONILLI is Associate Professor of Sociology of Law, Deviance, and Social Change in the Department of Philosophical, Educational, and Social Sciences, University of Chieti–Pescara “G. D’Annunzio”.
E-mail: andrea.antonilli@unich.it