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...

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Published in:	Politics & the Life Sciences Vol. 16; pp. 3 - 22
Main Author:	Vila, Bryan
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Politics & the Life Sciences March 1997
Subjects:	Criminal justice system Crime prevention Prevention of juvenile delinquency Child development Criminal behavior Social control United States social policy United States
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