Human Nature and Crime Control: Improving the Feasibility of Nurturant Strategies
Bryan Vila 3

Commentaries

The Cynic's Guide to Human Nature and Crime Control: Why It Hardly Matters Which Theory You Use as a Basis for Holistic Crime Policy
Lawrence E. Cohen 23

Nurturant Crime Prevention Strategies Are Also Needed in the United Kingdom
David P. Farrington 26

Improving the Balance between Child Development and Juvenile Punishment in a Comprehensive Strategy: A Comment on Vila
James C. Howell 28

Containing Social Disorder and Involving the Public in Nurturant Strategies: Feasible and Cost-Effective Strategies of Crime Control
Kenneth C. Land 31

A Skeptical But Sympathetic Appraisal of the Prospects for Nurturant Crime-Control Policies
Steven D. Levitt 34

Darwinizing Crime Control Policies: Additional Recommendations
Richard Machalek 36

An Evolutionary, But Not Stable Strategy for Crime Control
Linda Mealey 38

Culture and Human "Nature"
Peter J. Richerson 40

Crime Control through Early Childhood Interventions: The Limits of Nurturant Prevention
Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn 42

The Neurobiology of Nurturance, Evolutionary Expectations, and Crime Control
Anthony Walsh and Lee Ellis 44

The Doom of a Good Intention
Franklin E. Zimring 46

Response

Motivating and Marketing Nurturant Crime Control Strategies
Bryan Vila 48

ARTICLES

What About Your Genes? Ethical, Legal, and Policy Dimensions of Genetics in the Workplace
Trudo Lemmens 57

The Giving of Hostages
J. Kenneth Smail 77

Paging Dr. Death: The Political Theater of Assisted Suicide in Michigan
Susan P. Fino, John M. Strate, and Marvin Zalman 87

The Fourth Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: Issues, Outcomes, and Unfinished Business
Malcolm R. Dando and Graham S. Pearson 105

PROFILE

The Human Genome Organization (HUGO)
Bartha Maria Knoppers and Lori Luther 127

TEACHING FOCUS

Bringing Science Policy into the Classroom: A Model Course
Karen F. Greif 131

CONFERENCE REPORT

Human Nature: Integrating Nature and Nurture
Kenneth C. Blanchard, Jr. 135

REPORT TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Ethical Aspects of Patenting Inventions Involving Elements of Human Origin
Group of Advisers on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology 139

BOOK REVIEWS

Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals (Frans de Waal)
Larry Arnhart 143

Reinventing Biology: Respect for Life and the Creation of Knowledge (Lynda Birke and Ruth Hubbard, eds.)
Philip L. Bereano 144

Ailing Leaders in Power, 1914-1994 (Hugh L'Etang)
Peter Hennessy 147

Global Habit: The Drug Problem in a Borderless World (Paul B. Stares)
Jonathan P. Caulkins 148

Human Tissue: Ethical and Legal Issues (Nuffield Council on Bioethics)
Andrea Bonnicksen 150

Emotions in Command: A Naturalistic Study of Institutional Dominance (Frank K. Salter)
John S. Price 151

Biosociology: An Emerging Paradigm (Anthony Walsh)
François Nielsen 154

The Evolution of Infectious Disease (Paul W. Ewald)
E. Richard Moxon 156

Chemical and Biological Weapons: A Study of Proliferation (Edward M. Spiers)
Brad Roberts 158

Moral Passages: Toward a Collectivist Moral Theory (Kathryn Pyne Addelson)
Robert T. Hall 159

Human Intellect and Cognitive Science: Toward a General Unified Theory of Intelligence (Morton Wagman)
Elliott White 161

Risk, Science, and Politics: Regulating Toxic Substances in Canada and the United States (Kathryn Harrison and George Hoberg) AND Regulating Risk: The Science and Politics of Risk (Thomas A. Burke, Nga L. Tran, Jane S. Roemer, and Carol J. Henry, eds.)
Patrick A. Stewart 162

Sexual Nature, Sexual Culture (Paul R. Abramson and Steven D. Pinkerton, eds.)
Laurette T. Liesen 164

RECENT BOOKS AND ARTICLES 167

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 177

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