Bioprediction is one topic around which there is recurring hype by scientists
and nonscientists alike. Th e present book represents an excellent compendium
of knowledge and research around bioprediction of forms of problematic
behavior. If there is one recurring motif it is, indeed, “don’t hype!”
Some of the hype to be found around bioprediction is blatant; some is more
subtle. In cutting through the hype, this book surely succeeds in its principal
intention: to provide a timely overview of newly emerging knowledge
and uncertainties around the neuroscience, genetics, and psychology of ‘bad
behavior’, and of the manner in which those in society are approaching or
should be approaching such developments.
Th e end achievement is not to minimize or maximize the concerns about the
use of biomarkers to predict “bad” behavior, but rather to place these concerns
in their proper multidisciplinary context. And that multidisciplinarity is an
unusual strength of this collection.