Juvenile violence in a winner-loser culture socio-economic and familial origins of the rise in violence against the person
Oliver James.
- London New York Free Association Books 1995.
- 171 p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [138]-164) and index.
Parental causes of individual differences in violence : abuse, disharmony and irritability -- Irritability in depressed mothers : a hidden cause of violence? -- Low income versus single parenting, low intelligence, and the underclass culture as causes of parental abuse, disharmony, and irritability -- Inequality : the direct effect of economics and culture on the prevalence of adult male violence -- Gender : the outwardly-directed violence of depressed men and the inwardly-directed violence of depressed women -- Biology : not a major cause of differences in violence between men -- Explaining the unprecedented rise in violence against the person since 1987.