| Violent societies: an application of orbital decomposition to the problem of human violence. | |
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PMID: 18157929 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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This study uses orbital decomposition to analyze the patterns of how governments lose their monopolies on violence, therefore allowing those societies to descend into violent states from which it is difficult to recover. The nonlinear progression by which the governing body loses its monopoly is based on the work of criminologist Lonnie Athens and applied from the individual to the societal scale. Four different kinds of societies are considered: Those where the governing body is both unwilling and unable to assert its monopoly on violence (former Yugoslavia); where it is unwilling (Peru); where it is unable (South Africa); and a smaller pocket of violent society within a larger, more stable one (Gujarat). In each instance, orbital decomposition turns up insights not apparent in the qualitative data or through linear statistical analysis, both about the nature of the descent into violence and about the progression itself. |
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Authors:
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M Spohn |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Nonlinear dynamics, psychology, and life sciences Volume: 12 ISSN: 1090-0578 ISO Abbreviation: Nonlinear Dynamics Psychol Life Sci Publication Date: 2008 Jan |
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Created Date: 2007-12-25 Completed Date: 2008-04-14 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9704130 Medline TA: Nonlinear Dynamics Psychol Life Sci Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 87-115 Citation Subset: IM |
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Faculty Liberal Studies, University College, University of Denver, CO 80208, USA. mspohn@du.edu |
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Crime
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trends* Crime Victims Forecasting Fractals Government Regulation* Hostility Humans Nonlinear Dynamics* Peru Politics* Prejudice Social Problems / trends Socialization* South Africa Violence / trends* Yugoslavia |
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