Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes
James Gilligan
306 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0399139796
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Language: English
Publish: April 2, 1996
AnthropologyCrimeHistoryNonfictionPoliticsPsychologySocial JusticeSocial ScienceSociologyTrue Crime
An eye-opening, revisionist analysis of the social and psychological roots of violence argues that violence should be approached as a problem in public health and preventative medicine, rather than one of biological or moral origins, and that shame is the common denominator that links violent perpetrators.