Edited by Edwin .I Megargee and Jack E. Hokanson
FROM THE PREFACE: Prefaces usually begin by attempting to convince the reader that the topic the book addresses is important or interesting enough for him to invest his time in reading it. Such an approach is unnecessary for this book, because at this point in our history the relevance of research on aggression and its causes si self-evident. Since 1962, the rate of violent crimes per hundred thousand population in the United States, includ- ing murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, has increased 5 percent. As these words are written, the nation is embroiled in a protracted war that has already cost 40,000 American lives and many times that many casualties among the populations of North and South Vietnam; moreover, the national involvement in this war is stimulating additional violence on the domestic scene. While the Vietnamese conflict is a major preoccupation for American citizens, this is only one of several dozen wars that have occurred since the end of World War I. Violence and warfare are the most dramatic and extreme forms of aggression, but the inability of people to resolve their differences amicably is also reflected in the spiralling rate of divorce, strikes, turmoil on our campuses, and in the alienation of many segments of our population from one another.
NY. Harper and Row. 1970. 277p. CONTAINS MARK-UP
