Citation

Gil DG. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1996; 66(1): 77-84.

Affiliation

School of Social Welfare, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8720644

Abstract

The futility of violence prevention efforts by government, professional organizations, and social advocacy movements should not be surprising, since the aim of these efforts has been primarily to control, punish, and modify the behavior of individuals involved in violence, rather than to discern and eliminate its root causes in the fabric of societies. This paper argues that efforts to prevent violence will continue to fail, as long as its sources in oppressive and unjust social conditions and values are not understood, confronted, and eradicated.

Language: en