PSY BEH 178S Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Norbert Elias, Psychiatric Services, Academic Press
27 Mar 2014
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University of california, irvine i it f c lif i. Public health models for illness remedy and prevention (removal of disease-producing bacteria or toxins or inoculations against viruses) are not so viable. (cid:57) this is especially the case because violence occurs in dynamic and rather turbulent social-environmental systems. Severe mental illness in la county jail (tt) Lamb, weinberger, marsh, and gross (2007) psychiatric services: random sample of 106 inmates march 2002 august 2002 (after mental health screening) Pollack, mulings, & crouch (2006) violent women inmates: interpersonal violence. Intrinsic to the notion of functionality are the concepts of system, utility/purpose, structure, adaptation, and survival. violence functions, continued. Robert merton: persistence is evidence of function (cid:57) violence has most certainly been persistent. Have we as humans become more violent? (cid:206) we are no more violent today than we ever have been indeed, we have become more civilized.
