Violence Rewired: Evidence and Strategies for Public Health Action

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Epigraph
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction and Overview
	I.1 Background
	I.2 Defining Terms
	I.3 Context for This Book
	I.4 Plan of the Book
Part I Origins
	1 The Prospect of Human Violence: Pessimism or Realism?
		1.1 Human Violence: The Tendency to Pessimism
		1.2 The Decline in Rates of Interpersonal Violence
		1.3 Violence as a Health Issue
		1.4 Violence, Death, and Physical Injury
		1.5 Violence and Mental Health
		1.6 Violence as a Clinical Issue
		1.7 Violence as a Public Health Issue
		1.8 Conclusion
	2 The Roots of Human Violence: In Search of the \'Hard Wired\'
		2.1 Introduction: The Standard Narrative of \'Hard Wiring\'
		2.2 Evolutionary Connections
		2.3 Violence in Early Human Societies
		2.4 Violence in Small-Scale Societies Today
		2.5 Evolutionary Forensic Psychology
		2.6 Conclusion
	3 The Biology of Violence: Possibilities and Limitations
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 Neurobiology of Violence
		3.3 Genes and Behaviour
		3.4 Quantitative Genetics: Studies of \'Heritability\'
			Evaluating Quantitative Genetics of Aggression and Violence
			Interpreting Heritability
			How Much Does Heritability Matter?
		3.5 Molecular Genetics
			Candidate Genes
			Genome-wide Association Studies
			Parallels in Research on Mental Disorders
		3.6 Gene–Environment Interactions and Epigenetics
			Non-coding Genes
		3.7 Conclusion
	4 Developmental Factors in Violence Propensity: The Learning of Violence
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 Becoming Violent
		4.3 The Influence of Temperament
		4.4 Socialisation
		4.5 Cultural Context
		4.6 Situational Factors
		4.7 Cognitive Processes
		4.8 Conclusion
	5 Structural Violence: Social and Political Factors in Understanding Violence
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 Beyond Direct Violence
		5.3 The Concept of Structural Violence
		5.4 Inequality as the Engine of Violence
		5.5 Developments in the Idea of Structural Violence
		5.6 Violence, Structure, and Public Health
		5.7 Conclusion
Part II Solutions
	6 Advancing a Global Public Health Response to Violence
		6.1 The Global Status Report on Violence Prevention
		6.2 National Action Plans for Violence around the World: Coordinating Law, Policy, and Interventions
		6.3 Laws to Deter and Prevent Violence
		6.4 Social, Educational, and Therapeutic Prevention Programmes
		6.5 Victim Services
		6.6 Monitoring Violence: National Prevalence Surveys
		6.7 The Logic and Procedures of Evaluation Research
		6.8 Conclusion
	7 Risk Assessment: Can Violence Be Predicted?
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 The Development of Risk Assessment
			Unstructured Clinical Judgement (UCJ)
			Actuarial Risk Assessment Instruments (ARAIs)
			Structured Professional Judgement (SPJ)
			From Risk Assessment to Risk Management
		7.3 The Continuum of Risk Assessment Approaches
			Risk and Protective Factors
		7.4 Elements of Risk Assessment Research
			Classification and Decision Trees
		7.5 Reviews of Risk Assessment Research
		7.6 Ethical Questions Raised by Risk Assessment
		7.7 Conclusion
	8 Pharmaceutical Interventions: Medication, Violence, and the Public Health
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 The Problem of Unintended Side Effects
		8.3 Big Pharma, Disease-Mongering, and Violence
		8.4 Enforced Medication
		8.5 Methodological Challenges in Testing Drugs for Violence
		8.6 Which Drugs Are Effective for Treating Violence?
		8.7 Conclusion
	9 Psychosocial Interventions: The Unlearning of Violence
		9.1 Introduction
		9.2 Reducing Violent Behaviour by Children and Young People
			Prevention Programmes at Home and School
			Interventions with Young People in the Justice System
		9.3 Reducing Violence by Adult Offenders
			Skills-Training and Related Methods
			Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
		9.4 Reducing Violence by Offenders with Mental Disorders
		9.5 Methodological Challenges in Researching Psychosocial Interventions
		9.6 Psychopathy, Treatment Resistance, and Responsiveness
		9.7 Conclusion
	10 Changing Structures: Integrated Interventions for Violence
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 Direct and Structural Violence Revisited
		10.3 Challenges in Changing Structures
		10.4 Undoing Structural Violence: Theoretical Perspectives
		10.5 Types of Structural Intervention
		10.6 Integrated Interventions for Preventing Intimate Partner Violence
		10.7 Conclusion
Rewiring Our Expectations: Lessons and Prospects
Appendix Major UN Initiatives to Address Violence, 1986–2018
References
Index