Human nature and crime control: improving the feasibility of nurturant strategies.
The same evolutionary and ecological principles that organize our understanding of organisms and organic communities can be used to help understand criminal behavior and our responses to it. This approach suggests solutions for an important dilemma that confronts the United States. The dilemma is...
| Publicado en: | Politics & the Life Sciences Vol. 16; pp. 3 - 22 |
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Association for Politics & the Life Sciences
March 1997
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