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Science 4 April 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5872, pp. 51 - 52
DOI: 10.1126/science.1156187
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SOCIOLOGY:
Confronting Violence Face to Face

David D. Laitin

Violence
A Micro-sociological Theory
by Randall Collins
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. 579 pp. $45, £26.95. ISBN 9780691133133.
Examining photographic, video, forensic, and ethnographic evidence of a wide range of violent situations (from schoolyard bullying to armed conflict), the author argues that violence is not easily triggered and often injures unintended victims.
The reviewer is at the Department of Political Science, 100 Encina Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6044, USA. E-mail: dlaitin{at}stanford.edu

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