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...thought it really identified one of the real defects of decentralization," says Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein, who is chairman of the Core Curriculum subcommittee on Social Analysis. "Except for the Core, there isn't very much communal discussion of academic matters...
...Herrnstein says that he does not agree that senior faculty are unavailable. "I think senior faculty are about, available to undergraduates. The problem is that we're not going after you undergraduates," he says. "But that's really not the Harvard style...
...THIS CONTEXT, it is difficult to respect the purported intellectual content of Koch's writings on crime. Koch wrote for The New Republic and more recently contributed to Policy Review a slavishly favorable review of Harvard professors James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein's Crime and Human Nature...
...REVIEW OF Crime and Human Nature, "The Mugger and His Genes," reduces the arguments of the book to a heavy-handed call for harsher criminal penalties. But by ascribing to their book an unintended ideological content, he distorts the attempts of Wilson and Herrnstein to provide an objective criminology. Their theory sees criminal actions as results of rational judgment, and, most controversially, argues that factors such as low intelligence, sex, body structure, the reaction-time of one's autonomic nervous system, and inheritable psychotic or aggressive tendencies tend to correlate with criminality...
Others in the field are more impressed by Wilson and Herrnstein. Dr. Frank Elliott, emeritus professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, though a bit dubious about the conclusions on IQ, says of the authors, "Theirs is the philosophy of this subject which is going to stand. Most of the work done on criminality by sociologists never mentions heredity. For either political or philosophical reasons, they don't like the feeling that your temperament or your personality is in any way influenced by heredity. That's nonsense...