Understanding Violence
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073RQ8WD5 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 229 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her third edition is a major contribution to the fi eld, pulling together disparate theories while presenting current data on such timely topics as youth violence and school shootings.”Karen Franklin, Ph.D. Forensic Psychologist“Elizabeth
Controversial issues such as physical punishment and violent television programming receive special attention making this volume an important resource for all those concerned with violent offenders and their victims -- and for their students and trainees.In this third edition of Understanding Violence, author Elizabeth Kandel Englander draws on contemporary research and theory in varied fields to present a uniquely balanced, integrated, and readable summary of what we currently know about the causes and effects of violence, particularly its effect on children. Throughout, she emphasizes the necessity of distinguishing among different types of violent behavior and of realizing that nature and nurture interact in h
Previous reader's notations very helpful Excellent and prompt service. The book was just what I was looking for as a reference for a project on violence I am working on. Many sentences were bracketed in the text by a previous reader and i thought that might be distracting. To my surprise, I agreed with the importance of all these selections. It gave me a head start with the book. blackflamingo7"Wonderful book but" according to blackflamingo727. I had bought this book initially a couple of years back for a class and recently re-purchased it for my Kindle. It is a wonderful idea to have text books for rent on Kindle, so keep that up, but maybe next time make the book in order. Randomly a paragraph will just cut off and then I'll find the rest of the chapter somewhere else in the book. It is terribly confusing and very hard to cite simply becaus. 7 said Wonderful book but. I had bought this book initially a couple of years back for a class and recently re-purchased it for my Kindle. It is a wonderful idea to have text books for rent on Kindle, so keep that up, but maybe next time make the book in order. Randomly a paragraph will just cut off and then I'll find the rest of the chapter somewhere else in the book. It is terribly confusing and very hard to cite simply becaus. "great book" according to billycat. Love the book, however its a little plain. I was expecting the book to have a lot of very emotional material , but I is a lot more mellow than what I thought, still a very good book.