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He advocates, firstly, initiating radical social and economic change to attack the root causes of violence; secondly, focusing on those at increased risk of becoming violent; thirdly, dealing with those who are already violent as if they were in quarantine rather than in constraint for their punishment and for society's revenge. The 20th century was steeped in violence. 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With devastating clarity, Gilligan traces the role that shame plays in the etiology of murder and explains why our present penal system only exacerbates it. Brilliantly argued, harrowing in its portraits of the walking dead, Violence should be read by anyone concerned with this national epidemic and its widespread consequences. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtraordinary. 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Written in a style that is both visionary and seductive, Delphian Blue is a visceral reading experience and as such warrants its Adults Only warning - the book explores themes of spirituality and sexuality in explicit detail and the material has the potential to shock or delight its reader. 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James Gilligan has discovered a devastating  truth that has been \"hiding in plain sight\" for the past century -  namely, that when America's conservative party, the Republicans, have  gained the presidency, the country has repeatedly suffered from  epidemics of violent death. Rates of both suicide and homicide have  sky-rocketed. The reasons are all too obvious: rates of every form of  social and economic distress, inequality and loss - unemployment,  recessions, poverty, bankruptcy, homelessness also ballooned to epidemic  proportions. When that has happened, those in the population who were  most vulnerable have \"snapped\", with tragic consequences for everyone.   These epidemics of lethal violence have then remained at epidemic levels  until the more liberal party, the Democrats, regained the White House  and dramatically reduced the amount of deadly violence by diminishing  the magnitude of the economic distress that had been causing it.   This pattern has been documented since 1900, when the US government  first began compiling vital statistics on a yearly basis, and yet it has  not been noticed by anyone until now except with regard to suicide in  the UK and Australia, where a similar pattern has been described.   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