Adrian Raine (born 27 January 1954) is a British

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. He currently holds the

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of Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology & Psychiatry in the Department of Criminology of the School of Arts and Sciences and in the Department of Psychiatry of the School of Medicine at the

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. He is noted for his research on the

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and biosocial causes of

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and

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in children and adults. He was the first scientist to use

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to study the brains of murderers. His 2013 book ''The Anatomy of Violence'' won that year's

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Early life and education

Raine received his

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from

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in 1977. He received his

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in psychology from the

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in 1982.

Career

Raine spent four years in two high-security prisons in England working as a prison psychologist. He was appointed

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in the Department of Psychiatry at

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in 1984 and in 1986 became director of the Mauritius Child Health Project, a continuing

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of child mental health following a group of 1795 people form

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from the age of three onward. Raine moved to the United States in 1987 to become assistant professor in psychology at the

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(USC). His motives in moving from Britain to the United States were twofold: first, he thought that American scientists were more open-minded regarding the potential role of genetics in crime than their British counterparts, and second, there were more murderers in the United States for him to study. He was promoted to tenured associate professor there in 1990. In 1999, he was given the endowed chair of Robert G. Wright Professor of Psychology at USC. In 2007, he made the move to serve as Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology & Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as the University's fourth Penn Integrates Knowledge professor. He frequently gives public lectures about his work, for example at events like TEDxVienna.

Awards and honors

Raine has received the Young Psychologist of the Year Award from the

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(1980), a Research Scientist Development Award from the

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(1993), an Independent Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (1999), the Joseph Zubin Memorial Award (1999), and USC's Associate's Award for Creativity in Research (2003). He has been a fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology since 2007 and of the

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since 2011.

Publications

* ''The Psychopathology of Crime'' (1993). * ''The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime'' (2013). *''Psychopathy: An Introduction to Biological Findings and Their Implications'' (2014) https://nyupress.org/books/9780814745441/

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Raine, Adrian British psychologists University of Pennsylvania faculty Alumni of the University of Oxford Academics of the University of Nottingham Living people British criminologists 1954 births British emigrants to the United States People from Darlington Moral psychologists Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science