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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
the cognitive basis of anger, hostility, and violence
Beck, Aaron T
2000
Describes the specific psychological causes of anger, interpersonal hostility, ethnic conflict, genocide, and war, and provides a framework for remedying those problems.
why our sons turn violent and how we can save them
Garbarino, James
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.