Book contents
- Violence Rewired
- Violence Rewired
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction and Overview
- Part I Origins
- 1 The Prospect of Human Violence
- 2 The Roots of Human Violence
- 3 The Biology of Violence
- 4 Developmental Factors in Violence Propensity
- 5 Structural Violence
- Part II Solutions
- Rewiring Our Expectations
- Appendix Major UN Initiatives to Address Violence, 1986–2018
- References
- Index
2 - The Roots of Human Violence
In Search of the ‘Hard Wired’
from Part I - Origins
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2020
Book contents
- Violence Rewired
- Violence Rewired
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction and Overview
- Part I Origins
- 1 The Prospect of Human Violence
- 2 The Roots of Human Violence
- 3 The Biology of Violence
- 4 Developmental Factors in Violence Propensity
- 5 Structural Violence
- Part II Solutions
- Rewiring Our Expectations
- Appendix Major UN Initiatives to Address Violence, 1986–2018
- References
- Index
Summary
We have begun by discussing how, when investigating the problem of human violence, we often encounter a sense of pessimism concerning several aspects of it. This chapter focuses on what we understand to be some of the roots of that attitude. At present there appears to be a consensus of opinion concerning the sources of human violence, which fosters a view that essentially, it is inescapable, as it emanates from fundamental features of us, often collectively referred to as ‘human nature’.
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- Violence RewiredEvidence and Strategies for Public Health Action, pp. 37 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020