Reddit reviews Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002234337601300405

This paper discusses it.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0679779124/ref=pd_aw_sim_sbs_14_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YS4XTDQ804Q93Z340PX7&dpPl=1&dpID=41BY9WY7RAL

This book discusses it. Find somewhere to seize it, comrade.

There's a fascinating book Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic by psychiatrist James Gilligan that talks about the social dynamics of prisons, where the guards like to empower violent chiefs that control subordinates in exchange for favoritism, graft, etc. It makes the guards jobs MUCH easier, and since they are vastly outnumbered by inmates, safer.

Odd to hear the same dynamics used on children...

This book, Violence: Reflections on an Epidemic, is a fantastic read. It details mostly very violent crimes and the penal system in America, but it also is very useful in understanding what may be root causes for violence: repression and internalization of shame, perceived loss of respect, generational grasps for power. So while it may not be talking about abuse, I believe it could be a great tool for understanding any type of violence. And what is psychological abuse but a form of violence?

http://www.amazon.com/Violence-Reflections-National-James-Gilligan/dp/0679779124/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417895422&sr=8-1&keywords=violence

Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic- James Gilligan. https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Reflections-National-James-Gilligan/dp/0679779124

By far one of my favorite books.

I would also suggest reading papers by Loic Wacquant. His book Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer is also really interesting. It's about building social capital and the like.

Also for some history read On Crime and Punishment by Cesare Beccaria. Everything good that criminologist have come up with stem from Beccaria. He's kinda like our Freud: probably wrong about a lot of things, but still essential to our understanding of criminology.

Since you are interested in jails (or more likely prisons) I would highly suggest The Angola Prison Seminary: Effects of Faith-Based Ministry on Identity Transformation, Desistance, and Rehabilitation by Dr. Michael Hallet. 3 year study on the positive effects faith based higher education can have on the mentality of the prison (though it focuses in on the fact that the faith part is just what is avaiable and likely all education would have the same effect.) This book also runs through WHY our current system doesn't work.

> Do you think people can control their own emotions? Of course. We do it every day.

I strongly disagree. If we could I predict we would probably end up dead. Occasionally there are kids born without the ability to feel pain and they tend to die at young age from self-inflicted wounds they don't know about.

In the event of trauma body can shutdown feelings but it also results in situations which I consider unhealthy (e.g. violent criminals - source, video).

Now, we can control how we express emotions but that's a totally different story. However, I think that in the interview they didn't really meant "emotions". Maybe "desires"? I find the interview vague and I don't know what they're talking about.

I think you all should read up a bit on this.