Download Full eBooks in PDF
The Biology Of Violence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Biology Of Violence book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Debra Niehoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Current Events
ISBN : UOM:49015002556133
A unique synthesis of breakthrough research, this landmark book shatters myths about the causes of aggression, maintaining that the roots of violent behavior lie in the way the brain works.
Author : Adrian Raine
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780307378842
Provocative and timely: a pioneering neurocriminologist introduces the latest biological research into the causes of--and potential cures for--criminal behavior. With an 8-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Author : Adrian Raine
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307475619
Passionate, courageous, and at times controversial, The Anatomy of Violence is a ground-breaking work that will challenge your core human values and perspectives on violence. 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 answers to these questions through his pioneering research on the biological basis for violence. In this book, he presents the growing body of evidence that shows how genetics and environmental influences can conspire to create a criminal brain, and how something as seemingly innocent as a low resting heart rate can give rise to a violent personality. Bristling with ingenious experiments, surprising data, and shocking case studies, this is also a clear-eyed inquiry into the thorny ethical issues this science raises about prevention and punishment.
Author : Deborah W. Denno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990-09-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521362199
The author examines criminal behaviour from birth to adulthood in a sample of nearly 1,000 subjects in order to determine the biological and sociological influences on violence. Over 100 predictors of violent behaviour found to be significant in past biological and sociological studies of crime are analysed. The results indicate that both biological and environmental factors produce strong, and independent, effects on both delinquency and adult crime and violence among both males and females. Powerful influences on violence include behavioural disorder during youth, low school achievement, hyperactivity, lead poisoning, and low levels of parental education. The results do not confirm the findings of previous studies that indicate direct relationships between delinquency and early intelligence, mental retardation, socioeconomic status, or early central nervous system dysfunction. The author concludes that many of the factors contributing to criminal and violent behaviour can be prevented because they have clear environmental origins that can be eliminated.
Author : David M. Stoff,Robert B. Cairns
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317780021
Conceived at a time when biological research on aggression and violence was drawn into controversy because of sociopolitical questions about its study, this volume provides an up-to-date account of recent biological studies performed -- mostly on humans. A group of scientists recognized the importance of freedom of inquiry and deemed it vital to address the most promising biological research in the field. The focus on biological mechanisms is not meant to imply that biological variables are paramount as a determinant of violence. Rather, biological variables operate in conjunction with other variables contributing to aggression or violence, and a complete understanding of this phenomenon requires consideration of all influences bearing on it. This book will familiarize readers with the rapidly growing and increasingly significant body of knowledge on the biological bases of human antisocial, aggressive, and violent behaviors. The editors concentrated on biological influences that support the basic physiological and biochemical processes of the brain and did not cover those biological influences that impact on the health of the individual such as head injury, pregnancy and birth complications, diet, and exposure to lead and other toxins. They focused on biological influences to illuminate their role in the complex behavioral phenomenon of violence. Three different approaches to the biological study of human antisocial, aggressive, and violent behaviors are represented -- genetic, neurobiological, and biosocial. Representing each of these three approaches, individual chapters from investigators in psychobiology, biological psychiatry, and basic-clinical neurosciences address the most recent experimental findings, methods, theory, and common misconceptions in the biological study of aggression and violence. The areas of primary focus are behavior and molecular genetics, neurochemistry and hormones, neuroimaging, psychophysiology and developmental psychobiology. Generally speaking, investigators following these different approaches have experience in different scientific backgrounds, select different methods, generate different analyses, employ different conceptual definitions for some of the same terms, and assume a different philosophical stance in attempting to explain violence. Nevertheless, all are united in their efforts to understand the biological underpinnings of violence. This book then assumes a comprehensive approach wherein different levels of analysis and different approaches inform each other. It is clear from the studies reported that aggression and violence are multidetermined phenomena and understanding them requires an interdisciplinary approach spanning economic, sociopolitical, psychological, sociological, and criminological as well as biomedical considerations. Nature (biology) and nurture (experience, context) are fundamentally inseparable in explaining aggression and violence; biology may affect experience or context, but experience or context also influences biology. Both need to be studied in a search for explanations of this phenomena.
Author : Randy J. Nelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195168761
Unchecked aggression and violence take a significant toll on society. With recent advances in pharmacology and genetic manipulation techniques, new interest has developed in the biological mechanisms of aggression. The primary goal of this title is to summarise and synthesis recent advances in the subject.
Author : Paul Brain,D. Benton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981-09-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015002369554
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on The Biology of Aggression, Château de Bonas, Toulouse, France, July 21-30, 1980
Author : József Haller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030463311
This book bridges the gap between basic science, which deals with general concepts of aggression and its neurobiological foundations, and law enforcement as one of the applied fields of aggression research. It addresses the current state of research and practice and compares and integrates the concept of aggression with violent crime. Chapters examine the types of criminal careers that cross the boundary between the two and summarize the biological, psychological, and social factors that underlie particular types of criminal careers. Subsequent chapters discuss overlaps between biological and psychological factors and detail how and to what extent aggression may serve as explanatory mechanisms for violence. The book also discusses the relationship between social problems and neuropsychological deficits, addressing how the neuropsychological deficits lead to the intergenerational recycling of social problems. Finally, the volume explores violence and aggression from a neurobiological perspective. Topics featured in this book include: The heritability of aggressiveness and violence-proneness. Glucocorticoids in humans. Aggression circuitry in animals. Distorted circuitry in violent animals. Biological factors of psychological change. Neurobiopsychosocial Perspectives on Aggression and Violence is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians and other professionals, and graduate students in forensic psychology, criminology/criminal justice, public health, developmental psychology, psychotherapy/counseling, psychiatry, social work, educational policy and politics, health psychology, nursing, and behavioral therapy/rehabilitation.
Author : Adrian Raine,Patricia Brennan,David Farrington,Sarnoff A. Mednick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781475746488
Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Rhodes, Greece, May 12-21, 1996
Author : Alex Alvarez,Ronet Bachman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412916851
Violence comprises a historical and contemporary discussion of the origins, patterns, and causes of violence in society. Through the use of contemporary and historical sources this book explore a variety of individual and collective types of violent crimes. It incorporates a broad interdisciplinary approach to analyzing the patterns and correlates of violence using the most up-to-date research and theories and presents them in a style intended to be accessible to a wide audience of readers.
Author : James S. Grisolía
Publisher : Elsevier Science & Technology
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015041363634
Hardbound. In the 70's, research on biological bases of violence was repudiated on ideological grounds. Now, fresh insights on the biology of violence, including research on brain injury, ethology and genetic defects which cause violent behaviour both in animals and humans, force reappraisal of biological foundations for some violent behaviour. This new work is reviewed, and critiqued from ethical and historical perspectives.In this volume case studies are discussed, including American inner cities, narcoterrorism, Northern Ireland and Basqueterrorism. Epidemiology, anthropology and sociology perspectives include international studies of homicide rates, of the impact of television, effects of alcohol, impact on survivors, and evolving changes in international warfare.This volume begins a fresh integration of biological, psychological and cultural perspectives on violence. This broad perspective will interest psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologist
Author : Luigi Valzelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015002369257
Author : Bandy X. Lee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119240679
A comprehensive overview of the integrative study of violence Violence continues to be one of the most urgent global public health problems that contemporary society faces. Suicides and homicides are increasing at an alarming rate, particularly in younger age groups and lower-income countries. Historically, the study of violence has been fragmented across disparate fields of study with little cross-disciplinary collaboration, thus creating a roadblock to decoding the underlying processes that give rise to violence and hindering efforts in research and prevention. Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Causes, Consequences, and Cures assembles and organizes current information into one comprehensive volume, introducing students to the multiple sectors, disciplines, and practices that collectively comprise the study of violence. This innovative textbook presents a unified perspective that integrates the sociological, biological, politico-economic, structural, and environmental underpinnings of violence. Each chapter examines a distinct point of learning, beginning with an overview of the content and concluding with discussion questions and an analytical summary. The chapters focus on key domains of research encouraging interdisciplinary investigation and helping students to develop critical analytical skills and form their own conclusions. Fills a significant gap in the field by providing a coherent text that consolidates information on the multiple aspects of violence Examines current legal, medical, public health, and policy approaches to violence prevention and their application within a global context Illustrates how similar causes of violence may have dissimilar manifestations Presents a multidisciplinary examination of the symptoms and underlying processes of violence Offers a thorough yet accessible learning framework to undergraduate and graduate students without prior knowledge of the study of violence More than just an accumulation of facts and data, this essential text offers a broad introduction to a thinking process that can produce rigorous scholarship across disciplines and lead to a deeper understanding of violence in its many forms.
Author : Lorraine Radford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441104786
Rethinking Children, Violence and Safeguarding explores the victimization of children as well as children who use violence towards others and presents an overview of key developments in research, policy and practice within the context of the recent major shift in thinking from 'child protection' towards 'safeguarding' and evidencing better outcomes. The gaps between rhetoric and practice are considered and Lorraine Radford argues that the way we 'think' about children and violence has had a profound impact on actions against the abuse of children and children who commit violence. Examples of research, reflections on research and key points and guidance on further reading make this a really accessible text. Rethinking Children, Violence and Safeguarding is essential reading for those studying childhood and undergraduate and graduate level, and will be of great interest to those working with children in any field.
Author : Jenny Pearce
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030260828
This book explores the potential for imagining a politics without violence and evidence that this need not be a utopian project. The book demonstrates that in theory and in practice, we now have the intellectual and scientific knowledge to make this possible. In addition, new sensibilities towards violence have generated social action on violence, turning this knowledge into practical impact. Scientifically, the first step is to recognize that only through interdisciplinary conversations can we fully realize this knowledge. Conversations between natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities, impossible in the twentieth century, are today possible and essential for understanding the phenomenon of violence, its multiple expressions and the factors that reproduce it. We can distinguish aggression from violence, the biological from the social body. In an echo of the rational Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, this book calls for an emotional Enlightenment in the twenty first and a post Weberian understanding of politics and the State.
