Overview
For the first two weeks the content will review basic theories of aggression and violence. Contrasts will be made between the various theoretical frameworks.

Slides:

definitions

Theory: Psychoanalytic

Media and Violence

WEB sites:

The following WEB sites are on Domestic Violence. It looks at theories of violence as explanatory models for DV.

http://www.stopvaw.org/printview/Theories_of_Violence.html

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/svaw/domestic/link/theories.htm

TV violence and brainmapping in children, Psychiatric Times, Oct. 2001, vol18:10.

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p011070.html

Theories that appear in the African Literature of Domestic Violence

http://academic.udayton.edu/health/06world/Africa03a.htm

This is from the Boston School of psychoanalysis on Freud’s theory of aggression

http://www.bgsp.edu/academics/isv.htm

This site looks at theories which link TV watching to violence. They theories are arousal, social learning, disinhibition, aggression reduction.

http://www.magicdragon.com/EmeraldCity/Nonfiction/socphil.html