Week 1: Cultures – What are they and how do they do things?

UG & G: Handwerker, W Penn. The Evolution of Choice & the Origin of Cultures. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2009. Chapters 1-3

 

Where Does Violence Come From?

 

Week 2: Cultural Values, Norms, and Moral Beliefs?

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

UG & G: 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.

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

G: Bagley W. Brigham Young’s Culture of Violence. Conference paper, 2002. http://www.cesnur.org/2002/slc/bagley.htm

G: Klein, J An Invisible Problem: Everyday Violence against Girls in Schools Theoretical Criminology 2006;10:147-177

 

Weeks 3-4: Religion?

UG & G: Sosis, Richard and Candace Alcorta Militants and Martyrs: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Terrorism , In Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World, eds. R. Sagarin and T. Taylor, pp. 105-24, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

 

Week 3:

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

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

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

Week 4:

UG & G: Qutb, Syed. Milestones. Introduction & Chapter 4, attached to syllabus; http://web.youngmuslims.ca/online_library/books/milestones/hold/index_2.htm

G: Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, World Islamic Front Statement, 1998. http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm

G: Noor FA We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical – interview with Abu Bakaar Bashir. Al Jazeera 2006, 18 August. http://english.aljazeera.net/archive/2006/08/2008410133657429527.html

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

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

 

Week 5: Unmet Expectations?

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

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

UG & G: 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

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

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

 

Week 6: Guns?

UG & G: Kates DB, Schaffer HE, Lattimer JK, Murray GB, Cassem EH. Guns and Public Health. Tennessee Law Review 1994;62:513-596.

UG & G: Raymond, E. Ethics from the Barrel of a Gun. http://www.catb.org/~esr/guns/gun-ethics.html

G: 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.

G: Kleck G, Gertz M. Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 86:150-187 (1995).

G: Tark J, Kleck G. Resisting Crime: The Effect of Victim Action on the Outcomes of Crime. Criminology 42: 861-909 (2004).

 

Week 7: What Do Classic Experiments Tell Us?

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

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

 

Week 8: Evolved Properties of Human Minds?

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

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

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

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

UG & G: Currie J, Tekin E. Does child abuse cause crime? NBER Working Paper 12171, 2006.

G: 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 9: Relationship Inequalities?

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

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

G: 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.

G: Handwerker WP Childhood origins of depression: evidence from native and nonnative women in Alaska and the Russian Far East. Journal of Women’s Health 1999a;8:87-94.

G: 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 2001;13: 679-689.

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

 

Week 10. Self-Defense?

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

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

G: 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.

G: Kopel DB, Gallan P, Eisen JD Is Resisting Genocide a Human Right? Notre Dame Law Review 81, 2006.

G: Polsby DD, Kates DB Of Holocausts and Gun Control Washington University Law Quarterly 2004;75:1237.

 

 

What Do Human Rights Activists Have to Do to Achieve Real Results?

 

Week 11. Policy & Program Critique

Pick a policy and related programs bearing on violence prevention, identify the assumptions on which that policy rests, identify an alternative (set of) assumption(s), and outline some of the policy and program implications of that alternative. All forms of violence are fair game, from war, genocide, and suicide terrorism, to domestic violence, drunk driving, street shootings, school yard bullying, and community disadvantage.

 

Week 12. Human Rights Applications

Who enjoys what human rights, and how did that come to be?

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