Special Section: Violence

RESEARCH GOES BALLISTIC
Are we an ultraviolent society?
Have we always been? What makes
people snap? Columbia scholars
address the causes, contexts, and
consequences of personal mayhem

VIOLENCE AND POVERTY:
Images and realities of the "underclass"
By HERBERT J. GANS

VIOLENCE AS A BIOMEDICAL PROBLEM: Natural born killers?
By LINDA CARROLL

VIOLENCE AND INSTITUTIONS:
Mapping the ecology of danger
By GERRY O'SULLIVAN

VIOLENCE AND LANGUAGE:
The signs that hurt
By J.L. LEMKE

VIOLENCE AND
THE MEDIA:
The wrong controversy?
By LEWIS COLE

	VIOLENCE AND POVERTY: Images and realities of the "underclass" By HERBERT J. GANS
	VIOLENCE AS A BIOMEDICAL PROBLEM: Natural born killers? By LINDA CARROLL
	VIOLENCE AND INSTITUTIONS: Mapping the ecology of danger By GERRY O'SULLIVAN
	VIOLENCE AND LANGUAGE: The signs that hurt By J.L. LEMKE
	VIOLENCE AND THE MEDIA: The wrong controversy? By LEWIS COLE