Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+6255 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713134 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705707 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734768 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1609640 Once a murderer, always a murderer? Or can a murderer be redeemed? Who do they really become after they have served decades in prison? What does it take for a killer to be accepted back into society? What is the chance that he will kill again?Award-winning journalist Nancy Mullane found herself facing these questions when she accepted an assignment to report on the exploding costs of incarceration. But the men she met behind the walls astonished her with their remorse, introspection, determination, and unshakable hope for freedom and forgiveness.Life After Murder is an intimately reported, utterly compelling story of five convicted murderers sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, who discover after decades in prison that their second chance, if it comes at all, is also the challenge of a lifetime. It follows their struggle for redemption, their legal battles to make good on the states promise of parole, and the lives they found after so many years inside-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1540500 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1440786 This book is an account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootings. On January 8, 2011, twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet-and-greet held by U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The incident left six people dead and eighteen injured, including Giffords, whom he shot in the head. The auhtor, a fifth generation Arizonan and longtime friend of Giffordss and a field organizer on her Congressional campaign, uses the tragedy as a jumping-off point to expose the fault lines in Arizonas political and socioeconomic landscape that allowed this to happen. He discusses the harmful political rhetoric, the inept state government, the lingering effects of the housing markets boom and bust, the proliferation and accessibility of guns, the lack of established communities, and the hysteria surrounding issues of race and immigration. He offers a revealing portrait of the Southwestern state at a critical moment in history, and as a symbol of the nations discontents and uncertainties. Ultimately, it is his rallying cry for a saner, more civil way of life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393178 Weve all asked, What is the world coming to? But we seldom ask, How bad was the world in the past? In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval Europe was more than thirty times what it is today. Slavery, sadistic punishments, and frivolous executions were common features of life for millennia, then were suddenly abolished. How could this have happened, if human nature has not changed? Pinker argues that thanks to the spread of government, literacy, trade, and cosmopolitanism, we increasingly control our impulses, empathize with others, debunk toxic ideologies, and deploy our powers of reason to reduce the temptations of violence.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392874 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393713 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1205462 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1307126 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306358 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304028 A compelling look at todays complex relationship between religion and politics In his second book, bestselling author Charles Kimball addresses the urgent global problem of the interplay between fundamentalist Abrahamic religions and politics and moves beyond warning signs (the subject of his first book) to the dangerous and lethal outcomes that their interaction can produce. Drawing on his extensive personal and professional knowledge of, experience with and access to all three traditions, Kimballs explanation of the multiple ways religion and politics interconnect within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam will illuminate the problems and give readers a hopeful vision for how to chart a safer course into a precarious future. Kimball is the author of When Religion Becomes Evil, one of the most acclaimed post 9/11 books on terrorism and religion Reveals why religion so often leads to deadly results The author has scholarly knowledge and expertise and extensive personal experience with the peoples, cultures, and leaders involved Readable and engaging, this book gives a clear picture of todays complex political and religious reality and offers hope for the future-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678898 Since 1993, over 400 women have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez. When a new disappearance is reported, Kelly Courter, a washed-up Texan boxer, and Rafael Sevilla, a Mexican detective, are sucked into an underworld of organised crime, believing they can outwit the corruption all around. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392827 Gang- and drug-related violence is the defining crime problem in our country, and has been for decades. The statistics are alarming and the toll incalculable, and despite countless initiatives from government, law enforcement and social service communities, little has proven effective. Still, remarkably, David Kennedy foresees what no one else could imagine: a happy ending. He has been on the front lines ever since putting together the law enforcement recipe now known as the Boston Miracle, which during the crack epidemic of the 90s cut gang and drug related violence in half. Since then, Operation Ceasefire has been refined and deployed- with astonishing success- in over 50 cities. With the endorsement of Attorney General Eric Holder and the National Drug Czar, Kennedys ideas have become de facto national policy. Dont Shoot tells the story of Kennedys long journey toward a solution. It began with listening to people on the ground, and what he heard was that there was a trust gap between law enforcement and the community. Closing that gap became the cornerstone of his approach, organizing powerful gatherings in which offenders came together with law enforcers and diverse community members and were asked to stop the violence. Its not that simple, but then again it is--the magic of the approach and of the book. Dont Shoot combines the street verite of The Wire, the social science of Gang Leader for a Day, and the moral urgency and personal journey of Fist Stick Knife Gun. But beyond that, Kennedy will show, unmistakably, that there can be real solutions-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1111874 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1228145 El Estado de Mxico es la economa mas poderosa del pas y su gobernador aparece como un slido aspirante presidencial para el 2012. Sin embargo, a partir del 2005, las banda de narcotrfico y secuestro han aumentado su presencia en esta entidad hasta convertirla en un paraso del delito, patrocinado y protegido por las propias autoridades. Gracia a las sumas millonarias que el gobierno mexiquense destina a los medios de comunicacin, la situacin ha pasado inadvertida. A travs de una exhaustiva investigacin, el anlisis detallado de decenas de casos y el contacto con testigos protegidos, Tierra narca revela las causas y consecuencias de la expansin del crimen organizado en el estado mexiquense. Un trabajo de actualidad e inters nacional que exhibe el entramado detrs de la terrible descomposicin social y poltica que cubre al pas--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1351482 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1089220 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=960718 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1153516 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=965095 Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, Columbine is an award-winning journalists definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020753 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1001768 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1153522 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=958825 Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, Columbine is an award-winning journalists definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=721579 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=694260 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=690606 James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. He joined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group - they called themselves a family - was arrested for a string of violent murders. During the decade that Nelson sat in prison, the society he had helped form grew into a national phenomenon. Street families spread to every city from New York to San Francisco, and to many small towns in between, bringing violence with them. In 2003, almost eleven years after his original murder, Nelson, now called Thantos, got out of prison, returned to Portland, created a new street family, and killed once more. Twelve family members were arrested along with him. Rene Denfeld spent over a decade following the evolution of street family culture. She discovered that, contrary to popular belief, the majority of these teenagers hail from loving middle-class homes. Yet they have left those homes to form insular communities with cultish hierarchies, codes of behavior, languages, quasi-religions, and harsh rules. Denfeld penetrates the psychology of these street youth, revealing the extremes to which desperate teenagers will go in their search for a sense of community in a world that would rather ignore their existence. Through the shocking story of the Thantos family, she builds an authoritative, persuasive, and troubling case that street families have grown among us into a dark reversal of the American ideal.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=689818 Scholars argue that the events of September 11, 2001, could not have happened as the U.S. government claims, and that the Twin Towers could not have been brought down merely by the impact of aircraft and attendant fires--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=672563 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=726667 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651461 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=688917 In April 2002, Janine Latuss youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved, it read,but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways. Based on his criminal past, writing this out just seems like the smart thing to do. If lam missing or dead this obviously has not protected me. That same spring Janine Latus was struggling to leave her marriage - a marriage to a handsome and successful man. A marriage others emulated. A marriage in which she felt she could do nothing right and everything wrong. A marriage in which she felt afraid, controlled, inadequate, and trapped. Ten weeks later, Janine Latus had left her marriage. She was on a business trip to the East Coast, savoring her freedom, attending a work conference, when she received a call from her sister Jane asking if shed heard from Amy. Immediately, Janines blood ran cold. Amy was missing. Helicopters went up and search dogs went out. Coworkers and neighbors and family members plastered missing posters with Amys picture across the county. It took more than two weeks to find Amys body, wrapped in a tarpaulin and buried at a building site. It took nearly two years before her killer, her former boyfriend Ron Ball, was sentenced for her murder. Amy died in silent fear and pain. Haunted by this, Janine Latus turned her journalistic eye inward. How, she wondered, did two seemingly well-adjusted, successful women end up in strings of physically or emotionally abusive relationships with men? If I Am Missing or Dead is a heart-wrenching journey of discovery as Janine Latus traces the roots of her own - and her sisters - victimization with unflinching candor. This memoir will move readers from the first to the last page. At once a confession, a call to break the cycle of abuse, and a deeply felt love letter to her baby sister, Amy Lynne Latus, If I Am Missing or Dead is an unforgettable read.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=624866 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614510 In See Jane Hit, Dr. James Garbarino shows that the rise in girls violence is the product of many interrelated cultural developments, several of which are largely positive. Girls have learned to express themselves physically in organized sports - thirty years ago, the number of boys playing organized sports was over ten times greater than the number of girls; now the ratio is almost at one to one. In a number of other ways too, the cultural foot binding that has kept girls from embracing their own physical power has been removed, which is largely to be celebrated. But nothing happens in isolation, and theres rarely such a momentous societal shift with absolutely no downside. One problem is that girls arent being trained to handle their own physical aggression the way boys are: our cultures methods of child-rearing include all sorts of mechanisms for socializing boys to express their violence in socially acceptable ways, but with girls we lag very far behind. At the same time, the culture has become more toxic for boys and girls alike, and girls sexuality is linked with violence in new and disturbing ways. Ultimately this brilliant, far-reaching examination of physical aggression and the new American girl shows us there is much we can do differently. See Jane Hit is not just a powerful wake-up call; its a clear-eyed, compassionate prescription for real-world solutions.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=640924 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=625982 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645063 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=631814 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584179 A look at school and workplace shootings in America, Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has plagued - and baffled - America for the last three decades, and offers some provocative answers to the oft-asked question, Why? Taking up where Bowling for Columbine left off, this book seeks to set these murders in their proper context and thereby reveal their meaning. By juxtaposing the historical place of rage in America with the social climate that has existed since the 1980s - when Reaganomics began to widen the gap between executive and average-worker earnings - Mark Ames, the founding editor of the Moscow-based newspaper the eXile, crafts a compelling argument that these school-yard and office massacres can be seen as modern-day slave rebellions. Presenting many fascinating and unexpected cases in detail, Ames shows us the true nature of these massacres - doomed, gory, sometimes even inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood, much like the slave rebellions were viewed in their time. An indictment of the hypocrisy and venality of American government and business, Going Postal shows us that the real killer is the degrading and humiliating system that strips us all of our humanity.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=591918 In March 2005, Ashley Smith made headlines around the globe when she miraculously talked her way out of the hands of alleged courthouse killer Brian Nichols after he took her hostage for seven hours in her suburban Atlanta apartment. In this moving, inspirational account, the 27-year-old widowed mother of a six-year-old girl shares for the first time the little-known details of her traumatic ordeal, and expands on how her faith and the bestselling book The Purpose-Driven Life helped her survive and bring the killers murderous rampage to a peaceful end. Like her captor, Smith too has faced darkness and despair. Yet even during the most desolate times of her life, she yearned for something better. Seeking a new life, she had moved to Atlanta, gotten a job, enrolled in a medical assistant training program, and was beginning to find her way to becoming the kind of mom she wanted her little girl to have. Then Brian Nichols took her hostage. Just hours earlier, hed allegedly shot to death a judge, a court reporter, a deputy, and a federal agent, and escaped in a stolen vehicle. Ashley had paid only passing attention to media coverage of the unfolding manhunt. Now she found herself face-to-face with Nichols, a desperate, heavily armed man with nothing left to lose. Unlikely Angel is Ashleys account of how this nightmare scenario developed into a remarkable connection between a man wanted for multiple murders and a single mother struggling to make a fresh beginning from her troubled past. Juxtaposing the minute-by-minute tale of her experience with the never-before-told tragedies and triumphs of her own life, Unlikely Angel is a story that will leave no reader untouched.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=643071 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=539626 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=739742 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=592299 Terry Eagletons examination of the idea of terror draws on political, philosophical, literary, and theological sources to trace a genealogy from the ancient world to the modern day. Ranging from the cult of Dionysus, through Shakespearian tragedy and the politics of Danton and Hegel, to the thought of Freud and Lacan, it takes in en route ideas of God, freedom, the nation, the sublime, and the unconscious. It also examines the problem of evil, and devotes a concluding chapter to the idea of tragic sacrifice and the scapegoat.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=687336 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645064 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=613164 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=677244 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=476470 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=534522 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=629328 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=497217 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=474844 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=466817 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=495062 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=470351 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=473990 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=381091 Few social issues have produced more exaggerated claims and contention among Americans than the struggle to control gun violence. Fueling the emotional fire in debates between firearms groups such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and gun-control advocates is the dispute over the importance of guns in American culture. Is the fondness for firearms truly part of a venerable American tradition, one to be observed with very few limits? In this fascinating inquiry, Alexander DeConde delves into the myths and politics regarding gun-keeping, as well as the controversies over gun use, crime, and policing from the early days of the republic to the present.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=398912 With Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times, Luis Rodriguez positions himself as mentor, elder, and advocate for Latino youth at risk, and in fact for all of Americas young people. Hearts and Hands deals with many of the same difficult issues encountered in Always Running, Rodriguezs memoir of his teen years as a gang member in L.A., but with a focus on healing through community building.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=357771 The five- and six-year-olds in my class have invented a new game they call Suicide. I have never seen a game I hate so much in which all the children involved are so happy. So begins Under Deadmans Skin, a deceptively simple - and compellingly readable - teachers tale. Jane Katch, in the tradition of Vivian Paley and Jonathan Kozol, uses her students own vocabulary and storytelling to set the scene: a class of five- and six-year-olds, like so many classes across America today, obsessed with what is to their teacher hatefully violent fantasy play. Jane Katch asks, Can I make a place in school for understanding these fantasies, instead of shutting them out? Over the course of the year she holds group discussions to determine what kind of play creates or calms turmoil; she illustrates (or rather the children illustrate for us) the phenomenon of very young children needing to make sense of unprecedentedly violent imagery; and she consults with older grade-school boys who know what its like to be obsessed by violence, and tell Katch what they think she should do to help. Jane Katchs classroom journey - one that leads her to arrive at rules and limits that keep children secure - is an enabling blueprint for any teacher or parent disturbed by violent childrens play.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645020 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=380338 Hoping to disentangle myth from reality, the authors summarize research on guns and violence in accessible, nontechnical language. Among the topics addressed are media bias in coverage of gun issues, prohibitionist measures for reducing gun violence, and a close analysis of the Second Amendment. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=357776 In Day of Reckoning, Wendy Murray Zoba vividly recounts the horrible events of April 20, 1999, and powerfully dissects controversies that still swirl in the aftermath of the Columbine High School shootings. Based on on-site visits and scores of interviews with survivors, parents, and friends of victims, her book gives unforgettable voice to the persons whose lives were most directly affected by the Columbine massacre. But Zobas book cuts deepest because she does not separate journalistic professionalism from her own identity as the mother of teenagers, and so her ability to empathize with Colorado parents who one spring morning sent their kids off to school -- not realizing they would never see them alive again. Day of Reckoning, then, is both a careful accounting of confusing, controversial events, and a deeply moving human document. It will touch readers struggling to understand what happened at Columbine and serve as an important resource in the ongoing historical interpretation of a darkly key event in the last years of the twentieth century. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=355172 This book is written in the form of stories that individually and collectively describe violence and violent crime in America in the twentieth century. Because violence means different things to different people, this book attempts to show the many ways in which we as a society think about violence and how these perceptions have developed in our society during the twentieth century. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=299908 In this sure-to-be-controversial book, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer use evolutionary biology to explain the causes of rape and to recommend new approaches to its prevention. According to Thornhill and Palmer, evolved adaptation of some sort gives rise to rape; the main evolutionary question is whether rape is an adaptation itself or a by-product of other adaptations. The book includes a useful summary of evolutionary theory and a comparison of evolutionary biologys and social sciences explanations of human behavior. The authors argue for the greater explanatory power and practical usefulness of evolutionary biology. The book is sure to stir up discussion both on the specific topic of rape and on the larger issues of how we understand and influence human behavior.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=313766 Offers guidance to those feeling concern about their safety and lack of security and wishing to cope in an increasingly violent world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=340980 Each year in the United States around 35,000 people are killed as the result of gun violence, and another 100,000 or so suffer nonfatal gunshot injuries. While everyone agrees that these figures are too high, any attempts to reduce the number of gunshot injuries presents policy makers and citizens with difficult trade-offs. In this important new book Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig quantify the social costs of gun violence. Drawing on the most detailed and extensive economic study available, the authors show that the cost of gun violence is approximately $700,000 per injury. The also provide detailed information about how the burden of gun violence is distributed in the U.S. Based on this data, Cook and Ludwig assess the effectiveness of violence-reduction programs and make suggestions about how best to curb gun violence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=273981 The Earths human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources. The world will consequently face growing scarcities of such vital renewable resources as cropland, fresh water, and forests. Thomas Homer-Dixon argues in this sobering book that these environmental scarcities will have profound social consequences - contributing to insurrections, ethnic clashes, urban unrest, and other forms of civil violence, especially in the developing world. Homer-Dixon is careful to point out that the effects of environmental scarcity are indirect and act in combination with other social, political, and economic stresses. He also acknowledges that human ingenuity can reduce the likelihood of conflict, particularly in countries with efficient markets, capable states, and an educated populace. But he argues that the violent consequences of scarcity should not be underestimated - especially when about half the worlds population depends directly on local renewables for their day-to-day well-being.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=286554 A passionate and timely manifesto against violent imagery aimed at children in TV, films, and video games--by a leading and respected authority on the subject. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=287416 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=355350 Discusses the myths and facts surrounding acquaintance, or date, rape, of both men and women, the physical and psychological consequences, ways to stay safe, and what to do if sexually assaulted. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=282528 Discusses violence against women including domestic violence and rape, as well as the American culture of sex and violence, getting help for victims, and ideas for prevention. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=278316 Examines the history of guns and gun use, issues of gun ownership and control, and the relationship between guns and violence involving young people. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=273689 After more than a decade of relentless increase in the urban war zones of large cities, violence by young boys and adolescents is on the rise in our suburbs, small towns, and rural communities. Twenty-five years as a psychologist working in the trenches with such children has convinced James Garbarino that boys everywhere really are angrier and more violent than ever before. In light of the recent school-based shootings, its now clear that no matter where we live or how hard we try as parents, chances are our children are going to school with troubled boys capable of getting guns and pulling triggers. Beyond the deaths and debilitating injuries that result from this phenomenon are the staggering psychological costs - children who are afraid to go to school, teachers who are afraid of their students, and parents who fear for their childrens lives. Building on his pioneering work, Garbarino shows why young men and boys have become increasingly vulnerable to violent crime and how lack of adult supervision and support poses a real and growing threat to our childrens basic safety.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=291928 This timely 3-vol. set unravels societal issues so that readers can examine and study various forms of violence in America from different perspectives. In 600 A -- Z articles, illustrated with more than 300 photos, charts and maps, the encyclopedia addresses criminal justice issues, violence in the media, historical acts of violence, and the cultural and biological roots of violence. It includes biographies of more than 100 Americans associated with violence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=354742 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=283818 Presents opposing viewpoints on the problem of teen violence, discussing how serious the problem may be, its causes, and ways to reduce it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=335274 Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers. Students read each book, individually take the test on the computer, and receive gratification when they score well. Schools using the Accelerated Reader program have seen a significant increase in reading among their students. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=61509 While almost everyone has a strong opinion about the profusion of violence - in film, TV, video games, and on line - paralysis sets in when it comes to action. The issue is seen as a hopeless standoff between free speech and preserving public morality. In Mayhem, Sissela Bok reframes the issue. She shows us that we have created a false dilemma and that we need not feel so helpless. Mayhem lays out the arguments and weighs the evidence on each side: the desensitization, fear, and addiction that concern psychologists, pediatricians, and religious groups on the one hand, and, on the other, the threat of censorship invoked by journalists, civil libertarians, and the entertainment industry. The book gives a vivid historical overview of the debate: from Rome, to nineteenth-century attempts to ban all theater, to censorship of the Internet in Singapore and China, and contrasting views of figures as diverse as Martin Scorsese, Bill Moyers, and Judge Bork.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=236368 Street gang members from San Diego recruited by a drug cartel are embroiled in the murder of a Roman Catholic cardinal at the Guadalajara airport. Mexican police ride shotgun for drug lords in Chevy Suburbans stolen in San Diego. Smugglers dig a tunnel under the U.S.-Mexico border to a cannery where cocaine is to be hidden in cans of jalapeno peppers. This is the U.S.-Mexico line in the 1990s, in the age of NAFTA - a microcosm of porous borders everywhere between the worlds of wealth and poverty, legal and illegal business, power and corruption, democracy and authoritarianism, hope and despair. To capture its chaos, complexity, corruption, and heroism demands unusual talent in a writer. Sebastian Rotella has that talent - and no writer could ask for richer raw material. Rotellas masterful portrait is one you will not easily forget.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=351716 Explains what date rape is, how to avoid it, and where to find help if youre a victim. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=284269 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=311632 Franklin Zimring offers the definitive examination of adolescent violence in the United States both as a social phenomenon and a policy problem. This book covers the range of youth violence issues in the 1990s, from crime statistics to demographic projections to new legislation. The result is a thorough debunking of Congressional predictions of a coming storm of juvenile violence and the half-baked policy proposals that accompany such warnings. The book sets forth comprehensive and dispassionate analyses of three key areas of youth violence policy: adolescent firearms possession and use, standards for transfer from juvenile court to criminal court jurisdiction, and legal sanctions for adolescents who kill. Zimring also offers an appropriate set of responses to youth violence that are consistent with a positive future for the juvenile court and for Americas children.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=226202 This startling new look at crime and violence in America reveals that Americas rate of nonviolent crime (burglary, theft) is comparable to other industrial nations--but its rate of lethal violence far outpaces other nations. Zimring and Hawkins reshape the debate about crime in the U.S., throwing sharp new light on old questions and suggesting new directions for public policy. 46 figures. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=199745 Gavin de Becker, the nations leading expert on predicting violent behavior, proves that we are all qualified to answer lifes highest-stakes questions. True fear is a gift, he says, because it is a survival signal that sounds only in the presence of danger; yet unwarranted fear has assumed a power over us that it holds over no other creature on earth. It need not be this way. In this book, de Becker shows that you can already predict violent behavior. Through dozens of compelling stories from his own career, he lays out the pieces of the human violence puzzle and shows how you can solve it by paying attention to the subtle - and sometimes blatant - signals of intuition. As he says, You can refuse to be a victim. Filled with unique and surprising insights into human behavior, The Gift of Fear will help you separate real from imagined danger, give you confidence in a sometimes threatening world, and make your life measurably safer.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=248112 Burton argues that the sources of conflict and violence are, on the one hand, the denial to many of their personal needs for development, social recognition and identity, and, on the other, the social expectation of compliance and the means used to enforce it. Social protest, terrorism, revolution, self-appointed leaderships, ethnic conflicts, industrial strife, street gangs of unemployed youth and even some family violence can be explained within this frame of structural violence. He examines the adversarial institutions of society - leadership, legislatures, the work place, the legal system and the international relations system - and considers what each would be like if designed to solve basic problems rather than to contain them. This provocative and challenging book will be of interest to students, lecturers and practitioners of politics, administration and management, industry, law and law enforcement, education and social work.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=229560 Jeff Benedict thoroughly investigates for the first time athletes abusive behavior, delving into the full spectrum of complex factors that give rise to and perpetuate the disturbing pattern of frequent sexual and domestic violence toward women. And, opposing the public stance of sports organizations, he offers compelling evidence that male athletes commit more crimes against women than do their peers. Benedict provides an in-depth examination of several incidents of rape, gang rape, and assault by successful sports figures, including the cases of Mike Tyson, Lawrence Phillips and other members of the University of Nebraska football team, former Boston Celtic Marcus Webb, and Warren Moon. Benedicts probe confronts such controversial issues as race, class, the groupie phenomenon, the sexually permissive lifestyle of many athletes, the consensual sex defense, and the sports industrys indifference to recruiting or drafting talented athletes with criminal records.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=236191 Discusses the violence that can occur when gangs have guns. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=299621 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=157227 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=139409 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=336694 Frank, clear-eyed and consistent, this collection of Susan G. Coles writings bucks the backlash against feminist ideas. With a twist on Lesbian Chic, Madonna and other icons, Cole analyzes the many forms of violence against women. Power Surge surveys the movement against pornography and sexual violence, its strategies and challenges for the nineties. Cole fearlessly confronts the complexity of these issues. Do sentimental liberal values take womens real lives into account? Is censorship the only answer? Is sexual assault only about power, or is it gradually finding a place on the spectrum of everyday sexual practice? Far from perpetuating womens victim status, Cole argues that the only route to female empowerment is to confront womens experience.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=117980 Through shattering storytelling, Geoffrey Canada recreates his childhood world, one in which the sidewalk boys learned the codes of the block from their elders and were ranked - and to some degree protected - through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. He gives a cogent, chilling analysis of how, through an unforeseen chain of consequences set in motion in the 1960s by New York Governor Rockefellers drug laws, everything changed on the streets. And there is a portrait of present reality - of drive-by shootings, of ever-younger, automatic weapon-toting drug runners, of gun manufacturers cold-blooded marketing of guns to children - which follows logically from our nations public stance on children and violence, and yet still, to this gifted writer and passionate child advocate, makes no sense at all. The authors vision for a changed future for these children, and so for our nation as a whole, is backed up by descriptions of Canadas acclaimed and innovative inner-city programs for children and their families - Peacemakers, Beacon Schools, and the Harlem Freedom Schools. His is a vision that includes governmental, community, and personal innovation and bravery and one that offers indelible stories of lives lost and of lives turned around.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=193826 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=72322 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=33367 The classic book that broke new ground by thoroughly reporting on the widespread problem of date and acquaintance rape has now been completely updated to include the most recent studies, issues, current events, and controversies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=55078 During the Los Angeles riots, hundreds of law-abiding citizens were able to take up arms against lawless mobs to defend themselves, their families, their homes, and their businesses. They did the job police simply could not do. Lives were saved. Robberies were prevented. Homes and businesses were defended and left intact - all thanks to our constitutional right to keep and bear arms. But despite the lessons of the L.A. riots, despite the fact that millions of Americans use firearms every year to prevent violent crime, and despite the clear intent of our Founding Fathers, there are those in America who believe you do not have the right to own a gun. In Guns, Crime, and Freedom, Wayne LaPierre tells the true story. Until now, there has been no single source for Americans - gun owners and those who dont own guns but are still interested in the debate over gun control - to find the available facts surrounding the gun control argument. Guns, Crime, and Freedom has all the facts. It explores the issues of gun control, crime, and the Second Amendment, and provides documented evidence and telling statements about the agenda of those who want to ban guns. LaPierre vigorously challenges the media and their claim that private gun ownership is the cause of the spiraling crime rate that has made American streets and communities unsafe. He explains - with detailed facts - how the freedom guaranteed in our Constitution is called into question when legislation is proposed to ban guns and impose waiting periods and limitations on gun purchases. At a time when crime rates are soaring, when the revolving door criminal justice system turns convicts loose to murder, rob, and rape again, and when police seem helpless to protect innocent citizens, it is urgent, says Guns, Crime, and Freedom, that our right of self-defense not be put in jeopardy.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=216241