Main description:

This seminal book offers an insightful portrait of chronic predatory offenders, problem police officers, and others with a demonstrated propensity for violent conduct.

Dr. Toch explores the personal motives, attitudes, assumptions, and perceptions of men who are recurrently violent.

How patterned and consistent is the violence of such men?
What are the dynamics of their escalating encounters?
What personal dispositions and orientations are most apt to lead to violence?
What can these observations tell us about the nature of human interaction, and violence itself?

Violent Men offers not only scholarly research on violence, but also a sense of the humanity of its subjects.

This special, 25th Anniversary Edition of Violent Men confronts recent debates over police violence, describes new clinical applications, and offers reflections from preeminent scholars on the widespread impact and enduring power of Dr. Toch's classic work.

Contents:

Foreword to the 25th Anniversary Edition
Shadd Muruna
Foreword to the 1992 Edition
Bertram P. Karon
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Violent Men
1. Study Description
2. The Violent Incident as a Unit of Study: Motives for Police Assaults
3. The Violent Incident in Its Personal Context
4. The Intersection of Perspectives of Violence
5. The Violence-Prone Person: A Typology
6. The Anatomy of Violence
7. Collective Violence
8. Some Implications
Appendix A: Code for Interpersonal Situations Resulting in Violence Against Police Officers
II. Contemporary Applications
9. Risk Assessment and Violence: Implications of the Interactionist Perspective
10. Analysis of Violent Incidents in the Community and in the Hospital: Use in Prevention, Treatment, and Training
Appendix B: Excerpts From President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
References
Index
About the Author