Practical Methods of Regional Science & Empirical Applications (Vol. 2)

by Walter Isard

By any standard, the United States is the most violent nation in the industrialized world. To find comparable levels of interpersonal violence, one must look to nations in the midst of civil war. Most observers of modern American violence do not consider the historical roots of current levels of violence, preferring to criticize American liberalism, permissive child-rearing practices, and excessive greed and individualism as the sources of the problem...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814779018
• ISBN13: 9780814779019
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"