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We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some … control before and after treated participants watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches … non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes …
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This background paper addresses four questions. They may seem to be independent, but I hope to show they are closely connected. The questions are: 1) What did Weber say when he defined the modern state as the organization with a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence? 2) What conceptual...
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How do we understand illicit violence? Can we prevent it? Building on behavioral science and economics, this book begins with the idea that humans are more predictable than we like to believe, and this ability to model human behavior applies equally well to leaders of violent and coercive...
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Just like nearly every aspect of human experience, crime, civil conflict, and violence have become increasingly global … numbers of people ever further from their countries of origin. Transnational terrorism has reached a 50-year high, in terms of … Internationalization of Crime, Conflict, and Violence, offers a unified framework to take stock of the theoretical and empirical literature …
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