Understanding and Preventing Violence: The Psychology of Human Destructiveness

by Leighton C. Whitaker

Book Overview

More violence has been perpetrated in the 20th century than in the two previous centuries combined. Understanding and Preventing Violence: Unmasking the Mentality of Human Destructiveness elucidates the mentality of destructive behavior with the hopes that in the future, the trend may be reversed through enlightenment. But in order to choose to be constructive, rather than destructive, there must first be an understanding.
This book takes a hard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849322650
• ISBN13: 9780849322655
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"