Violence, Stress, and Social Support

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Weeks 2-3: Measuring Stress

Widom CS, Dutton MA, Czaja SJ, and DuMont KA. Development and Validation of a New Instrument to Assess Lifetime Trauma and Victimization History. Journal of Traumatic Stress 2005;18:519-531.

Week 4 (Feb 14): What Do Classic Experiments Tell Us About Human Violence?

Milgram S. Behavioral Study of Obedience. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 1963;67:371-378.

Haney C, Banks C, Zimbardo P. A Study of Prisioners and Guards in a Simulated Prison. Naval Research 1973;1-17.

Zimbardo P. The Mind is a Formidable Jailer: A Pirandellian Prison. New York Times Magazine 1973;April 8:38-60.

Weeks 5-6 (Feb 21, 28): Are the Roots of Violence Evolved Properties of Human Minds?

Diagnostics (O’Connor): Antisocial Personality, Sociopath, and Psychopathy

Bandura A. Social Cognitive Theory. Annual Review of Psychology 2001;52:1-16.

de Quervain DF-J et al. The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment. Science 2004;305:1254-1258.

Henrich J et al. Costly Punishment Across Human Societies. Science 2006;312:1767-1770.

Henrich J, Henrich N. Culture, Evolution, and the Puzzle of Human Cooperation. Cognitive Systems Research 2006;7:220-245.

Nordstrom C. Deadly Myths of Aggression. Aggressive Behavior 1998;24:147-159.

Victoroff J. The Mind of the Terrorist. Journal of Conflict Resolution 2005;29:3-428.

Belsky J, Steinberg L, and Draper P. Childhood Experience, Interpersonal Development, and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialization. Child Development 1991;62:647-70.

Widom CS. The Cycle of Violence. Science 1989; 244: 160-166.

Perry BD Incubated in Terror: Neurodevelopmental Factors in the ‘Cycle of Violence.’ In: Children, Youth, and Violence. (J Osofsky, Ed). Guilford Press, NY, pp. 124-148, 1997.

Week 7 (Mar 14): Do Guns Promote Violence?

Bingenheimer JB, Brenna RT, Earls FJ. Firearm Violence Exposure and Serious Violent Behavior. Science 2005;308:1323-1326.

Kates DB, Schaffer HE, Lattimer JK, Murray GB, Cassem EH. Guns and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence or Pandemic of Propaganda. Tennessee Law Review 1994;62:513-596.

Kleck G, Gertz M Armed Resistance to Crime. The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 1995;86:150-188.

Miller M, Hemenway D, Azrael D. State-level homicide victimization rates in the US in relation to survey measures of household firearm ownership, 2001-2003. Social Science & Medicine 2007;64:656-664.

Cottrol RJ, Diamond RT. The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration. Georgetown Law Journal 1991;80:309-361.

Hahn RA, Bilukha OO, Crosby A, Fullilove MT, et al. First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Firearms Laws. Findings from the Task Force on Community Preventative Services, CDC, 2003.

Week 8 (Mar 21): Does Violence Come from Cultural Values, Norms, and Moral Beliefs?

Atran S. Genesis of Suicide Terrorism. Science 2003; 299:1534-1539.

Atran S. The Moral Logic and Growth of Suicide Terrorism. The Washington Quarterly 2006;29:127-147.

Atran S. Global Network Terrorism. Unpublished powerpoint presentation for the National Security Council, USA, 2006.

de la Roche RS. Collective Violence as Social Control. Sociological Forum 1996; 11:97-128.

McFate M. Anthropology and Counterinsurgency. Military Review 2005; 38:24-38.

Bagley W. Brigham Young’s Culture of Violence. Conference paper, 2002.

Figueredo AJ, Tal IR, McNeill P, Guillen A. Farmers, Herders, and Fishers: The Ecology of Revence. Evolution and Human Behavior 2004;25: 336–353

Vandello JA, Cohen D. Male Honor and Female Fidelity: Implicit Cultural Scripts That Perpetuate Domestic Violence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2003; 84:997-1010.

Week 9 (April 4): Does Religion Promote Violence?

Kopel DB The Scottish and English Religious Roots of the American Right to Arms. Bridges 2004;12:291-312.

Kopel DB The Torah and Self-Defense. Penn State Law Review 2004;109:17-42.

Kopel DB The Catholic Second Amendment. Hamline Law Review, 2006;519: 1-38

Kopel DB Self-Defense in Asian Religions. Journal of Firearms and Public Policy 2006;18:.

Israeli R. A Manual of Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism. Terrorism and Political Violence 2002;14:23-40

Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, World Islamic Front Statement, 1998

Noor FA We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical – interview with Abu Bakaar Bashir. Al Jazeera 2006, 18 August.

Raphaeli N. Ayman Muhammad Rabi’ Al-Zawahiri: The Making of an Arch Terrorist. Terrorism and Political Violence. 2002;14:1-22

Sosis R, Alcorta CS. Militants and Martyrs: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Terrorism. 2006, in press.

Week 10 (April 11): Does Violence Come from Unmet Expectations?

Davies JC. Toward A Theory of Revolution. American Sociological Review 1962;27:5-19.

Crosby F. Relative Deprivation Revisted. The American Political Science Review 1979;73:103-112.

Brush SG. Dynamics of Theory Change in the Social Sciences: Relative Deprivation and Collective Violence. Journal of Conflict Resolution 1996;40:523-545.

Bellair PE, McNulty TL. Beyond the bell curve: Community disadvantage and the explanation of black-white differences in adolescent violence. Criminology 2005;43: 1135-1168

Kilcullen DJ Countering Global Insurgency. Journal of Strategic Studies 2005;28:597-617.

Kilcullen D. Twenty-eight Articles. Military Review 2006;38:103-108.

Week 11 (April 18): Does Violence Come from Relationship Inequalities?

Handwerker WP Gender power differences between parents and high risk sexual behavior: AIDS/STD risk factors extend to a prior generation. Journal of Women's Health 1993c;2: 301-316.

Handwerker WP Why violence? Human Organization 1998;57:200-208.

Handwerker WP Child Abuse and the Balance of Power in Parental Relationships: An Evolved Domain-Independent Mental Mechanism that Accounts for Behavioral Variation. American Journal of Human Biology 2001a;13: 679-689.

Figueredo AJ, Corral-Verdugo V, Frias-Armenta M, et al. Blood, solidarity, status, and honor - The sexual balance of power and spousal abuse in Sonora, Mexico. Evolution and Human Behavior 2001; 22: 295-328

Krain M. International Intervention and the Severity of Genocides and Policides. International Studies Quarterly 2005;49:363-388.

Rummel RJ. Democracy, Power, Genocide, and Mass Murder. Journal of Conflict Resolution 1995;39:3-26.

Marshall MG, Gurr TR. Peace and Conflict, 2005. Center for International Development and Conflict Management, Department of Government & Politics. University of Maryland.

Week 12 (April 25): Reflection – Freedom from Violence, Self-Defense, and Human Rights

Renteln AD Relativism and the Search for Human Universals. American Anthropologist 1988; 90: 56-72.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (U.N., 1948)

Frey B. Prevention of Human Rights Violations Committed with Small Arms and Light Weapons. Final Report to the General Assembly of the United Nations, 2006.

Kates DB The Second Amendment and the Ideology of Self-Protection. Constitutional Commentary 1992; 9:87-104.

Reynolds GH A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment. Tennessee Law Review 1994;62:461-512.

Polsby DD, Kates DB Of Holocausts and Gun Control Washington University Law Quarterly 1997;75:1237.