“Conflict and Climate: How Global Warming Leads to Global Violence” …how these factors contribute to violence often attributed to climate change. The speakers challenged dominant narratives about climate-induced conflict; noted the impact of war and conflict on the environment itself,…
An Exploration of the Marked Decline of Women’s Involvement in Crime: 1700–1900 …issues of gender. However my research suggests that they are also due in some considerable part to a marked shift in the forms and methods of patriarchy at the outset…
Criminal Retaliation: A Qualitative Study of Social Control Beyond the Law …and contingent forms of retaliation, offering a typology to organize the data. Part of this examination is the ways in which gender shapes the context and dynamics of retaliatory events…
Let ‘Em Rot: Understanding Public Punitiveness and Forgiveness Toward Offenders …identity may be useful for untangling people’s conscious contradictions and internal inconsistencies regarding attitudes towards crime and punishment that may be contributing to discrepancies in survey-based studies of the phenomena….
Identifying Genes Responsible for a Highly Heritable Aspect of Antisocial Behavior in 7-Year-Old Children …is not. Based on our repeated finding of the high heritability of psychopathic antisocial behavior, as well as our multivariate results, the following approaches are being taken with our molecular…
In Ukraine and Elsewhere, Is Third-Party Diplomacy Helpful in Ending Wars? …of promoting diplomacy. Yet, given the evidence Min has collected, an undisciplined approach to peace may only make things worse. This article is based on research by Eric Min, assistant…
Desistance from Right-Wing Extremism …found violence was an important factor in terms of promoting disengagement. In some cases, individuals involved in high levels of violence reported experiencing “burnout,” while other individuals reported experiencing moral…
Race/Ethnicity, Space, and Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Collective Violence in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles …Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Collective Violence in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.” That book incorporated brief accounts of the above-mentioned race riots and set the stage for…
The Militarization of Nuer and Dinka Community Life: A Comparative Field Study of the Transformative Impact of Sudan’s Unresolved War …the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). The tremendous surge in Nuer/Dinka violence precipitated by that event mercifully came to an end in January 2002, after the SPLA was reunited by…
The Nazi Concentration Camps …Much of my work focuses on daily practices of violence. I have examined the transition from the improvised abuse in the early camps to the structured violence of later years,…
