Sullivan primarily working with the before mentioned points and only worked lightly with the biological aspects, such as race, gender, brain chemistry and genetic make up. ... Sociologists tend to dismiss biological theories of deviance, arguing that any association between physical characteristics and deviant behaviour can be explained in other ways. ... They suggest that "It may well be that lower working class children, who are more likely to be found in the criminal statistics, are also by virtue of diet, continual manual labour, physical fitness and strength, more likely to be mesomorph...

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