The Science of Violent Behavior Development and Prevention Contributions of the Second World War Generation
Book contents
- The Science of Violent Behavior Development and Prevention
- The Science of Violent Behavior Development and Prevention
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: A Young Science with a Long History
- 2 From Birth in a British Orphanage to Assessments of American Indians’ Development
- 3 From Rationing, Illness, and Stress to the Creation of a Major Longitudinal Birth Cohort
- 4 From Country Girl in Southern Finland to Longitudinal Research into Alternatives to Aggression and Violence
- 5 From the Occupied Netherlands to the Pittsburgh Longitudinal Studies
- 6 From Boy to Man
- 7 Nurture and Nature
- 8 From Unruly Child to Political Protester and Promoter of an Ecology-Minded Concept of Development
- 9 From the Frustration–Aggression Hypothesis to Moral Reasoning and Action
- 10 A Tortuous Path towards Understanding and Preventing the Development of Chronic Physical Aggression
- 11 From Childhood in a Ruined German City to Research on Crime and Violence
- 12 The Last War Baby
- 13 Comments on the Autobiographies of the World War II Babies by Younger Peers
- Index
- References
2 - From Birth in a British Orphanage to Assessments of American Indians’ Development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2021
Book contents
- The Science of Violent Behavior Development and Prevention
- The Science of Violent Behavior Development and Prevention
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: A Young Science with a Long History
- 2 From Birth in a British Orphanage to Assessments of American Indians’ Development
- 3 From Rationing, Illness, and Stress to the Creation of a Major Longitudinal Birth Cohort
- 4 From Country Girl in Southern Finland to Longitudinal Research into Alternatives to Aggression and Violence
- 5 From the Occupied Netherlands to the Pittsburgh Longitudinal Studies
- 6 From Boy to Man
- 7 Nurture and Nature
- 8 From Unruly Child to Political Protester and Promoter of an Ecology-Minded Concept of Development
- 9 From the Frustration–Aggression Hypothesis to Moral Reasoning and Action
- 10 A Tortuous Path towards Understanding and Preventing the Development of Chronic Physical Aggression
- 11 From Childhood in a Ruined German City to Research on Crime and Violence
- 12 The Last War Baby
- 13 Comments on the Autobiographies of the World War II Babies by Younger Peers
- Index
- References
Summary
Jane Costello, Professor Emerita of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University (United States) was born in England (1939) and received her PhD in social psychology from the University of London School of Economics. She participated in two National Academy of Medicine (United States) panels on aggressive and violent behavior. She began her career as an epidemiologist and evolved into a developmental epidemiologist, incorporating methods from the developmental sciences. Her interest in aggressive behavior started with studies of children with psychiatric illnesses. She created the DSM diagnostic interview for children. She studied the role of puberty in the development of conduct disorder. She created the Great Smoky Mountains Study in the United States, which led to an opportunity to compare the development of American Indian and non-Indian participants in response to a ‘natural experiment’: the creation of a casino. It had no effect on the children of the well-off members of the American Indian community, but it had a marked positive effect on children from poor families, even into their 30s. Results point to a critical period of exposure early in the teenage years: a bio-psycho-social phenomenon, which also has considerable economic and social effects, similar to the expected effect of a ‘Universal Basic Income’ (UBI).
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- The Science of Violent Behavior Development and PreventionContributions of the Second World War Generation, pp. 26 - 45Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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