HEREDITY,CRIME, AND THE KILLING-THE-BEARER-OF-BAD-NEWS SYNDROME: A REPLY TO BRENNAN AND MEDNICK *

Brennan and Mednick find fault in this issue of the journal with a review of the literature on heredity and crime conducted by Walters and White 1989. Brennan and Mednick argue that the review is lacking in specificity and that in sections in which the criticisms are explicit the reviewers draw erroneous conclusions. The relative merits of these two points are examined in this response to Brennan and Mednick's commentary.