Violent Men : An Inquiry into the Psychology of Violence

Foreword vii Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Violence In Psychological Perspective 1(34) The Shape of Violence 5(5) Patterns of Violence 5(2) The World of Violent Men 7(2) Toward a Typology of Violence 9(1) The Investigation 10(25) The Peer Interview 10(6) Sources of Data 16(4) The Interview Schedule 20(5) Analysis of the Interview Data 25(1) The Case of ``Jack the Lady Killer'' 26(9) The Violent Incident As A Unit Of Study: Motives For Police Assaults 35(32) Pressing the Police Button 41(17) The Extension of Violence 58(8) From Incident, to Person, and Back 66(1) The Violent Incident In Its Personal Context 67(36) Jimmy, the Precarious Teaser 67(12) Officer Jones: The Power of Persuasion 79(7) Sam, the Giant-Killer: Mobilizing Violent Predispositions 86(17) The Intersection Of Perspectives Of Violence 103(28) Games That Go Sour in the Night 103(7) Out of the Bushes and Into the Frying Pan 110(11) A Question of Manhood and Honor 121(10) The Violence-Prone Person: A Typology 131(48) The Typology: A Preliminary Characterization 133(2) Varieties of Self-Image Compensating 135(11) Self-Image Promoting 135(6) Self-Image Defending 141(5) Rep-Defending: Violence as a Social Obligation 146(5) Pressure-Removing: Panic in the Corner 151(3) Exploiting: The Cost of Consuming People 154(3) Bullying: The Joy of Inflicting Terror 157(3) Self-Defending: The Omnipresent Threat 160(2) Self-Indulging: The Liabilities of Adulthood 162(2) Norm-Enforcing: The Burden of Dispensing Justice 164(2) Catharting: Aggression as Emotional Release 166(2) Problems of Validity 168(5) And What About Reliability? 173(2) Patterning Problems: The Complex Violence-Prone Person 175(3) Result of the Reliability Study 178(1) The Anatomy Of Violence 179(38) Evolution of the Violence-Prone Premise 183(2) The Subculture of Violence 185(7) Collective Violence 192(15) The Phenomenology of an Urban Riot 194(4) Riot-Generated Motives 198(3) The Precipitating Incident in Collective Violence 201(6) Shared Violence and Personal Violence 207(3) Front Page Violence 210(7) Some Implications 217(42) Violence and the Criminal Justice System 219(3) Identification and Classification of Violent Men 222(1) The Objectives in the War Against Violence 223(2) Strategies for Change 225(14) The Problem of Intervention 226(2) Building Mature Personalities 228(2) The Context for Retraining 230(2) The Staging of Violent Incidents 232(2) Games as Violent Incidents 234(2) The Interpersonal Setting of Retraining 236(3) The War Against Collective Violence 239(2) Police Retraining 241(6) The Oakland Violence Reduction Project 247(6) Did the Review Panel Work? 253(2) Implications of Our Research Strategy Involving Offenders 255(2) A Final Word 257(2) Appendix 259(16) References 275(6) Index 281