Born to crime : the genetic causes of criminal behavior / Lawrence Taylor.

  • Taylor, Lawrence, 1942-
Date:
1984
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Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Born to crime : the genetic causes of criminal behavior / Lawrence Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [I]f, in the course of further developments in genetic science and technology, the law—either judicial decision making or the legislative process—is invoked, it will very likely reflect contemporary mores. What concerns some people, myself included, is the good possibility that be¬ cause the rate of discovery of new scientific knowledge exceeds the rate of adaptability of this knowledge on the part of our social and legal in¬ stitutions, we are today running the risk that, as with nuclear fission, we shall have the knowledge of the means of radically changing the tra¬ ditional nature of man or his institutions without a concomitant devel¬ opment of our social sciences and of our competence to control the use of this new knowledge for humane purposes. —Professor Horace Krever, K.C., University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, in an address at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Canada.