# Violence

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- Book: [Violence](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-gilligan/violence) ([Violence.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-gilligan/violence.md))
- Authors: [James Gilligan](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-gilligan)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7977-912-4
- Pages: 320
- Published: 1997-04-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Drawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist, his own family history, and literature, Gilligan unveils the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who will not only kill others but...