The anatomy of violence : the biological roots of crime Book , Print in English
2014
"Why do some kids from good environments become mass murderers? Is there actually such a thing as a natural-born killer? And, if so, what can we do to identify and treat those born with a predisposition to criminal behavior? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has sought…
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RC569.5.V55 R35 2014
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The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined Book , Print in English
2011.
We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old…
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Dying to win : the strategic logic of suicide terrorism Book , Print in English
2005.
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Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil Book , Print in English
2006.
Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.
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DD247.E5 A7 2006
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More guns, less crime : understanding crime and gun-control laws Book , Print in English
1998.
"Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it cause more citizens to harm each other? Wherever people happen to fall along the ideological spectrum, their answers are all too often founded upon mere impressionistic and anecdotal evidence. In this…
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KF3941.L68 1998
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Obedience to authority : an experimental view Book , Print in English
2009.
"In the 1960s Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram famously carried out a series of experiments that forever changed our perceptions of morality and free will. The subjects--or "teachers"--Were instructed to administer electroshocks to a human "learner" with the shocks…
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HM271.M47 2009
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On killing : the psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society Book , Print in English
2009.
Updated to include information on twenty-first century military conflicts, recent crime rates, suicide bombings, school shootings, and much more, this account looks at the techniques the military uses to overcome soldiers' reluctance to kill and examines the psychological cost on…
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On violence Book , Print in English
1970.
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Ordinary men : Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland Book , Print in English
2017
In the early hours of July 13, 1942, the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101, a unit of the German Order Police, entered the Polish Village of Jozefow. They had arrived in Poland less than three weeks before, most of them recently drafted family men too old for combat…
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Protest at Selma : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting rights act of 1965 Book , Print in English
1978.
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JK1929.A2 G371 1978
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Radicalization : why some people choose the path of violence Book , Print in English
2017
In the wake of the Paris, Beirut, and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, fears over “homegrown terrorism” have surfaced to a degree not seen since September 11, 2001—especially following the news that all of the perpetrators in Paris were European citizens. A sought-after…
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The value of violence Book , Print in English
2013
Violence: the driving force of political life -- Bureaucracy and violence -- Force and governance -- America: a tough nation -- Morality and violence -- Violence and change.
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JC328.6.G52 2013
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Violence : six sideways reflections Book , Print in English
2008.
"There is violence everywhere and yet we cannot explain or accept it. Philosopher Slavoj Zizek's premise is that what we see - violence with a clearly identifiable agent - is itself generated by a hidden violence: the one which sustains our political and economic system." "Zizek…
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B105.V5 Z59 2008
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Violence as protest : a study of riots and ghettos Book , Print in English
1971.
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HN90.V5 F64 1971b
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Wayward Puritans : a study in the sociology of deviance Book , Print in English
2005.
"Kai T. Erikson uses the Puritan settlement in 17th-century Massachusetts as a setting in which to examine several ideas about deviant behavior in society. Combining sociology and history, the author draws on the records of the Bay Colony to illustrate the way in which deviant…
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Why civil resistance works : the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict Book , Print in English
2011.
pt. I WHY CIVIL RESISTANCE WORKS -- One. Success Of Nonviolent Resistance Campaigns -- Two. Primacy Of Participation In Nonviolent Resistance -- Three. Exploring Alternative Explanations For The Success Of Civil Resistance -- pt. II CASE STUDIES…
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Why people obey the law Book , Print in English
2006.
Part I. Introduction : Procedural justice, legitimacy, and compliance -- Design of the Chicago study -- Part II. Legitimacy and compliance : Legitimacy as a theoretical issue -- Measuring legitimacy and compliance -- Does legitimacy contribute independently to compliance?…
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The worth of war Book , Print in English
2014
"Although war is terrible and brutal, history shows that it has been a great driver of human progress. So argues political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg in this incisive, well-researched study of the benefits to civilization derived from armed conflict. Ginsberg makes a convincing…
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