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

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amp ldquo Offers not only scholarly research on violence, but also a sense of the humanity of its subject amp hellip should be considered a key and core addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library Psychology and Criminology collections and supplemental studies reading lists. amp rdquo -Midwest Book Review Offers not only scholarly research on violence, but also a sense of the humanity of its subject amp hellip should be considered a key and core addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library Psychology and Criminology collections and supplemental studies reading lists. (Midwest Book Review)

Offers not only scholarly research on violence, but also a sense of the humanity of its subject... should be considered a key and core addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library Psychology and Criminology collections and supplemental studies reading lists. --Midwest Book Review

“Offers not only scholarly research on violence, but also a sense of the humanity of its subject… should be considered a key and core addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library Psychology and Criminology collections and supplemental studies reading lists.” —Midwest Book Review Offers not only scholarly research on violence, but also a sense of the humanity of its subject…should be considered a key and core addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library Psychology and Criminology collections and supplemental studies reading lists. * Midwest Book Review *

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Hans Toch, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University at Albany of the State University of New York, where he is affiliated with the School of Criminal Justice. He obtained his PhD in social psychology at Princeton University, has taught at Michigan State University and Harvard University, and in 99 , served as the Walker-Ames Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Toch is a fellow of both APA and the American Society of Criminology. In 99 , he acted as president of the American Association of Correctional Psychology. He is a recipient of the Hadley Cantril Memorial Award (for Men in Crisis), the August Vollmer Award of the American Society of Criminology for outstanding contributions to applied criminology, the Prix DeGreff from the International Society of Criminology for Distinction in Clinical Criminology, and the Research Award of the International Corrections and Prison Association. Dr. Toch's research interests range from mental health problems and the psychology of violence to issues of organizational reform and planned change. His books include The Social Psychology of Social Movements ( 9 5, 2 3) Reforming Human Services: Change Through Participation (with J. Douglas Grant, 982) Living in Prison: The Ecology of Survival ( 992) Mosaic of Despair: Human Breakdowns in Prison ( 992) The Disturbed Violent Offender (Rev. ed., with Kenneth Adams, 994) Police Violence (with William Geller, 99 ) Corrections: A Humanistic Approach ( 997) Crime and Punishment (with Robert Johnson, 2 ) Acting Out: Maladaptive Behavior in Confinement (with Kenneth Adams, 2 2) Stress in Policing (2 2) Police as Problem Solvers: How Frontline Workers Can Promote Organizational and Community Change (2 5) Cop Watch: Spectators, Social Media, and Police Reform (2 2) and Organizational Change Through Individual Empowerment: Applying Social Psychology in Prisons and Policing (2 4).  

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