Monday, May 28, 2007

Mass murder: what causes it? Can it be stopped?
Contexts, Vol. 6, Number 2, pp 28-34.
PDF - http://www.asanet.org/galleries/default-file/Spring07ContextsFeature.pdf
"We asked several experts to discuss various forms of mass murder, their causes, and possible means of prevention. The panelists were Katherine S. Newman, coauthor of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings; Michael Mann, author of The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing; Randall Collins, author of the forthcoming study, Violence: A Micro-
Sociological Theory of Antagonistic Confrontations; and James Ron, author of Frontiers and Ghettos: State Violence in Serbia and Israel and coauthor of “what shapes the west’s human rights focus?”