
By conservative estimates, more than 16,000 violent crimes are committed or attempted every day in the United States. Violence involves many factors and spurs many viewpoints, and this diversity impedes our efforts to make the nation safer. Now a landmark volume from...

Integrates biological, psychosocial and social science perspectives in an assessment primarily of criminal, interpersonal violence (plus contributing factors such as alcohol, drugs, firearms, family violence), filling gaps left by previous studies which tended to focus on specific...