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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (186 page)

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INDEX
 
Note: Page numbers in
italics
refer to figures.
 
Abilene paradox
 
abolition of capital punishment
 
abolition of chemical weapons
 
abolition of corporal punishment
 
abolition of nuclear weapons
 
abolition of slavery
 
abolition of torture
 
abortion
 
and crime decline
 
and infanticide
 
sex-selective
 
Abraham
 
Abrahms, Max
 
abstraction
 
Abu Ghraib prison
 
Achilles
 
Adams, John
 
adolescence:
 
and crime
 
male,
see
young men
 
peer influence in
 
adoption studies
 
adrenaline
 
affirmative action
 
Afghanistan
 
Soviet invasion of
 
U.S. war in
 
Africa
 
independence in
 
wars in
 
African Americans:
 
civil rights of
 
community actions of
 
family lives of
 
and hate crimes
 
homicide rates of
 
lynching of
 
Million Man March
 
and 1960s decivilization
 
in prison
 
racist views of
 
segregation of
 
as slaves
 
violence by
 
African Union
 
Against Our Will
(Brownmiller)
 
Agamemnon
 
Age of Dynasties
 
Age of Ideology
 
Age of Nationalism
 
age of psychology
 
Age of Reason
 
Age of Religions
 
Age of Sovereignty

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