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Why They Kill : the Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist by Rhodes, Richard, 1937- is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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Why do they kill? Why do some men and women and even children assault, batter, rape, mutilate and murder? No question has so stubbornly resisted explanation. Religions, ideologies and every discipline or science that touches on human behavior have offered answers—theories invoking moral, supernatural, behavioral, social, neurological or genetic causes. None of these well-known theories credibly and authoritatively explains the violent crimes you and I follow in the news every day. It strains common sense to imagine that people are born to violence when rates of violence differ from group to group, culture to culture and age to age. It strains common sense to invoke brain damage to explain violent behavior when most people with damaged brains are not violent. Poverty, race, subculture, mental illness, child abuse, gender, are all disqualified, singly and collectively, as explanations for criminal violence by the sheer number of exceptions within every category that even a casual investigation reveals.I have personal experience of violence, which is why it interests me. For two years, between the ages of ten and twelve, I was subjected to beatings, psychological and physical torture

Who reads Why They Kill : the Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist?

Author

Rhodes, Richard, 1937-

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ; Random House, Incorporated [distributor

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101972038

Category

science

Subjects

Psychology, True Crime, Social Science

Rating

3.81 / 5 (363 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14