The Science of Violent Behavior Development and Prevention

Contributions of the Second World War Generation

Richard E. Tremblay

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781108834810
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108883191
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This book describes the lives of 12 people born in Europe and North America during the Second World War. They became leading scholars on the development and prevention of violent human behavior. From the first to the last page, the book introduces contrasting life-stories and shows how their paths crossed to create a relatively unified body of knowledge on how human violence develops and possible prevention methods. The authors describe the similarities and differences in their family background, university training, theories, and collaborations. Not to mention how they differ in research methods, scientific conclusions, and their influence on the research published today. These comparisons celebrates the diversity of their experience and, in turn, their achievements. By knowing this, you can stand on the shoulders of these giants to look to the future of this subject and potentially contribute to its next steps.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: A Young Science with a Long History
• 2 From Birth in a British Orphanage to Assessments of American Indians' Development
• 3 From Rationing, Illness, and Stress to the Creation of a Major Longitudinal Birth Cohort
• 4 From Country Girl in Southern Finland to Longitudinal Research into Alternatives to Aggression and Violence
• 5 From the Occupied Netherlands to the Pittsburgh Longitudinal Studies
• 6 From Boy to Man: From Delinquent Development to Old Age Crime
• 7 Nurture and Nature: Surviving in the Shadows of War
• 8 From Unruly Child to Political Protester and Promoter of an Ecology-Minded Concept of Development
• 9 From the Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis to Moral Reasoning and Action
• 10 A Tortuous Path towards Understanding and Preventing the Development of Chronic Physical Aggression
• 11 From Childhood in a Ruined German City to Research on Crime and Violence
• 12 The Last War Baby: A Life of Studying Antisocial Behavior in Context
• 13 Comments on the Autobiographies of the World War II Babies by Younger Peers
• Index