Violence Reflections on a National Epidemic
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 05/01/1997
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In this groundbreaking book, James Gilligan examines the epidemic foremost in the minds of most Americans -- violence. As the former director of mental health at a hospital for the criminally insane, Gilligan worked with intractably violent criminals and succeeded in drastically reducing the prison's excessive crime rate.
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As he tells the stories of the men he treated, Gilligan traces the devastating links between violence and shame. He shows how that deadly emotion drives people to destroy others and even themselves rather than suffer a loss of self-respect, thereby explaining why the standard responses to violence are doomed to failure. Gilligan makes his case with such authority and compassion that his book is likely to shape a generation of social policy makers as well as touch any reader who has ever been affected, directly or indirectly, by violence.
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