February 22, 2008
Violence, Up Close and Personal
A sociologist challenges prevailing theories of when, and why, people lash out
Randall Collins, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, thinks human beings are bad at violence. Is the man mad? Any newspaper would seem to falsify his claim, offering up a bestiary of child killers, cross-tribal ethnic cleansers, and suicide bombers, not to mention military attacks sanctioned by law but still brutally sanguinary.
Collins, author of the new book Violence: A
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