Violent knights in violent times

Non-Violent Strategies in Violent Contexts

Violent death, violent states, and American youth.

DRING the past two decades, more and more young Americans have been dying violent deaths. Although rates for every age group have been rapidly declining since the turn of the century, the death rates for those aged 15-24 have, since 1960, been on the rise. In these years the rate of youths involved in motor vehicle and other accidental deaths has been climbing while suicide and homicide rates h...

Violent Environments

According to co-editors Nancy Lee Peluso and Michael Watts, Violent Environments is meant to provide “both a critique of the school of environmental security and alternative ways of understanding the connections between environment and violence” (p. 5). This new and thought-provoking book takes particular aim at the neo-Malthusian approach to studying environmental conflicts (an approach that m...

Csf 5 - Hiaa in Violent and Non-violent Suicide Attempters

Many studies have reported involvement of monoamine neurotransmission in suicide through measurement of serotonin and its main metabolite, 5-HIAA, in brain of suicide victims and in CSF of suicide attempters. 23 non-depressed non-psychotic suicide attempters and equal number of controls were selected, and all the subjects were screened on Cornell Medical Index. Suicide attempters were assessed ...

Sadism and psychopathy in violent and sexually violent offenders.

A nonrandom sample (N = 41) of inmates from a maximum security prison were classified as either psychopathic or nonpsychopathic (using the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R)) and violent or sexually violent. Sadism was measured using the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II (MCMI-II) Scale 6B, the Personality Disorder Examination (PDE) items for sadistic personality disorder, and the sexu...