Various authors debate the causes of violence, the prevalance of family and teen violence, the motivation of serial killers, and ways to reduce violence.
Examines the roots and outward manifestations of aggression and violence, the role of society and the individual, and what can be done to lessen the trend toward violent behavior and encourage a peaceful approach.
Describes the different kinds of violence that threaten the lives of children and the overwhelming influences that can move them to become violent themselves.
A collection of ten essays addressing the issue of gun control and gun violence, including the testimony of a Virginia Tech parent and those who defend gun ownership.
Collects articles that debate various problems related to gun violence in the U.S., covering gun control measures, crime, the disproportionate affect on minority populations, constitutionality, self-defense, and gun safety education.
Presents the words of young people between the ages of eleven and eighteen in which they share what it is like to live in the midst of the upheaval and violence of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
A fourteen-year-old British street person with extraordinary powers of observation and self-control must face murderous thugs connected with a past he has tried to forget, when his skills with a knife earned him the nickname, Blade.
Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has trouble controlling his anger, spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather's life.
When thirteen-year-old Robbie shoots an old man in a liquor store, everyone who knows the quiet, withdrawn youth struggles to understand this act of seemingly random violence.
