Crime and punishment.
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Blog round-up
First off, I should say I was in the middle of writing a blog post on a lecture on ecstasy (the emotion, rather than the drug, though the latter did get a couple of mentions!) that I'd been to in London when there was a bereavement in the family and everything got put on hold…
John Gray on the decline of violence
John Gray argues in The Guardian that Pinker's got his sums all wrong and there has been no decline in violence.…
The Civilizing Process and the Decline of Violence
THE DEBATE over whether humanity is becoming less violent has its beginnings in Ted Robert Gurr's 1982 article "Historical trends in violent crime : a critical review of the evidence" (in Tonry and Morris, eds, Crime and Justice : an Annual Review of Research). Several other studies, mainly based on homicide data from Scandinavia and…