In this controversial and compassionate book, the distinguished
psychiatrist James Gilligan proposes a radically new way of
thinking about violence and how to prevent it. Violence is most
often addressed in moral and legal terms: "How evil is this action,
and how much punishment does it deserve?" Unfortunately, this way
of thinking, the basis for our legal and political institutions,
does nothing to shed light on the causes of violence.
Violent criminals have been Gilligan's teachers, and he has been
their student. Prisons are microcosms of the societies in which
they exist, and by examining them in detail, we can learn about
society as a whole. Gilligan suggests treating violence as a public
health problem. He advocates initiating radical social and economic
change to attack the root causes of violence, focusing on those at
increased risk of becoming violent, and dealing with those who are
already violent as if they were in quarantine rather than in
constraint for their punishment and for society's revenge.
The twentieth century was steeped in violence. If we attempt to
understand the violence of individuals, we may come to prevent the
collective violence that threatens our future far more than all the
individual crimes put together.
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