Neurocriminologia e controllo sociale

Una lettura sociologica della biologizzazione del crimine

Abstract

This article offers a critical sociological reading of neurocriminology, focusing on the processes through which crime is increasingly framed in biological terms. Starting from key contributions in the field, including Adrian Raine’s The Anatomy of Violence, the analysis examines the epistemological, political, and ethical implications of the biologization of crime, highlighting how this perspective reshapes contemporary 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 prediction, medicalization, and the naturalization of inequality. In conclusion, it reaffirms the need for a sociological perspective capable of restoring to the understanding of crime its political, moral, and relational dimensions.