On Jun 12, 2006, at 7:04 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> [wonder if this is Iraq war blowback?]
>>
>> FBI reports biggest violent crime jump in 15 years
>> By James Vicini
>> 11 minutes ago
>>
>
> Dane Archer's actually done some interesting archival research on
> this. During the 20th century, murder rates are significantly
> higher when a country is at war or immediately following wartime.
> Moreover, this increase cannot simply be due to returning veterans,
> because the murder rate also increases among women and age groups
> that could not have served in the war. Archer's argument is that
> the legitimate violence conducted by the state provides a
> ubiquitous role model for aggression in everyday life.
Thanks - I knew someone had done research like that. Cockburn used to make a big deal of it.
Doug