violence

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violence

Fires in the mirror

Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and other identities
1997
Features a collection of performance pieces based on interviews conducted with people involved in the riots that erupted in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1991.

Preemption

a knife that cuts both ways
2006
Describes the world's move toward preemptive action rather than reaction in foreign policy, crime fighting, and various aspects of society, examining consequences of this for civil liberties and human rights and suggesting ways to achieve balance between security and freedom.

Acts of faith

2005
A group of men and women fighting the civil war in Sudan find themselves thrown into a well of moral corruption that tries to turn their strengths into weaknesses, forcing them to make ethical compromises in order to survive.

Goat

a memoir
2004

Who the man

2004
Thirteen-year-old Earl Pryor is much too big for his age, and much too powerful for the anger that rages within him when classmates tease him, the girl he likes disappoints him, or his parents' problems get too real.

Hate groups in America

a record of bigotry and violence
1988

Usama bin Laden's al-Qaida

profile of a terrorist network
2001

Savage spawn

reflections on violent children
1999
An examination of antisocial youth, discussing the origins of psychopathy, looking at incidences of psychopathic tendencies in children as young as three, exploring the debate between nurture and nature, and suggesting solutions to dealing with homicidal children.

Prisoners of hate

the cognitive basis of anger, hostility, and violence
2000
Describes the specific psychological causes of anger, interpersonal hostility, ethnic conflict, genocide, and war, and provides a framework for remedying those problems.

Lost boys

why our sons turn violent and how we can save them
2000
A study of youth violence, drawing upon twenty-five years as a psychologist to examine the reasons why young men and boys have become increasingly vulnerable to violent crime, and proposing strategies to prevent youth violence, and to rehabilitate violent teenagers.

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