The Pill to End Crime

WASHINGTON - The genetic revolution made possible by mapping the human genome may include new cures for drug addiction, restoring health to the mentally ill and, perhaps, one day replacing prisons with pills, experts say. . . . "Some physicians already regard criminality as a disease," Dr. McGuffin said. Treating crime with pills "is a possibility" if researchers can find a genetic basis for some of the human impulses that underlie some crimes, he said.
---Cincinnati Post, Feb. 11, 2001