Power and Control Escape from Violence

In Power and Control, the authors assert that the absence or abundance of control by individuals causes problems in relationships, political systems, and international relations. The book deals with the relationship between power and control as it affects individuals and nations.

Contents

iii

Figures

vii

Foreword

ix

Acknowledgements

xi

Introduction

xiii

Experiencing Control

1

(10)

Homicide Versus Suicide

3

(1)

Do We Understand Control Problems?

4

(2)

What Are The Causes Of Control Problems?

6

(2)

Confinement Versus Prevention

8

(1)

Increased Emphasis On Security Systems

9

(2)

Crime Statistics

11

(22)

Characteristics Of Crime

12

(1)

Weapon Use

13

(1)

Domestic Violence

14

(2)

Property Crimes

16

(1)

Crimes By Children

16

(7)

Females As Independent Criminals

23

(1)

Hate Crimes

23

(3)

Mental Illness and Violence

26

(2)

Random Violence and Managed Health Care

28

(2)

Law Enforcement Employees

30

(1)

The Effect of the Miranda Decision

30

(3)

The Illusion of Reality

33

(18)

Experience Does Not (Always) Equal Reality

35

(3)

Improving the Goodness of Fit

38

(2)

Using Experience to Feel in Control

40

(2)

Four Sources of Control

42

(1)

Levels of Control

43

(2)

The Environment: Many Overlapping Elements!

45

(2)

Measuring Our Feelings of Control

47

(4)

Control Dynamics

51

(16)

Internal Control

52

(1)

External Control

53

(1)

The Four Components Viewed Together

54

(1)

Relationships Among the Sources of Control

55

(1)

Self-Directed and NonSelf-Directed Experiences

56

(2)

Ways We Learn Control

58

(1)

Are You Always In Control?

59

(1)

Self-Control Versus Environmental Control

60

(1)

Effect of Internal Forces on the Environment

61

(2)

Creativity and Control

63

(1)

Comfort and Control

64

(1)

Achievement and Control

64

(3)

Control Problems

67

(12)

The Keys to Control

67

(1)

Determinants of Control from All Directions

68

(1)

Focal and Contextual Determinants

69

(1)

Context: Foreground versus Background

69

(1)

The Ultimate Focus

70

(3)

Changing Focus

73

(1)

Fractionating

73

(1)

Common Use of Fractionation

74

(2)

The Power of Choice

76

(1)

Validity Generalization

77

(2)

Hospitals or Asylums

79

(12)

Separate Worlds

79

(4)

Utopian General Hospital

83

(8)

School Versus Learning

91

(12)

What Teachers Can Do

93

(2)

Feedback And Control

95

(1)

Praise And Control

96

(3)

Exert CFE Or Teach COI?

99

(1)

Life-Long Learning

100

(3)

Balancing Controls

103

(18)

General Applications of Control Theory

103

(3)

Unanticipated Crises

106

(1)

Generativity

106

(1)

Learning To Handle Stress

107

(9)

Examining Larger Systems Of Control

116

(5)

Focusing On Situations

121

(16)

Too Much Control Over Internal Impulses

124

(1)

Solving Problems: The Process

124

(2)

Control Scales: Structure And Application

126

(3)

Control Theory Applied To A Violent Case

129

(1)

Variations Of Violence

130

(7)

Caves To Outer Space

137

(8)

Freedom Or Independence

141

(1)

Life -- A Continuous Process Of Becoming

142

(3)

Being Self-Directed

145

(8)

How Much Control Do We Have?

145

(1)

Characteristics of Self-Direction

146

(3)

Characteristics Of NonSelf-Direction

149

(4)

Captain of Your Soul

153

(8)

The Man Who Was Put In A Cage

153

(3)

Fractionating Control From The Environment

156

(2)

Being Dependent - We Choose!

158

(3)

Appendix

161

(6)

Index

167

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