San Antonio College Library

"Despite mounting reference to the "transgenerational transmission of violence," we still lack a compelling understanding of the linkage between the interpersonal violence of early life and the criminal violence of adulthood. In Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime, Abby Stein draws on the narratives of 65 incarcerated subjects and extensive material from law enforcement files to remedy this lacuna in both the forensic and psychodynamical...