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364 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 1 (1966)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0364 and id is 1 raw text is: A Preface to Violence By MARVIN E. WOLFGANG ABSTRACT: Violence is generally viewed as some form of physical injury inflicted on others. A brief review of the articles in this volume suggests that the public fear of violence may be greater than the actual amount of violent behavior. Assaultive crimes and other forms of violence are summarized. The dominant, middle-class society morally denounces vio- lence, perhaps partly because of a general principle which characterizes every established political power and the need to uphold nonviolence as a means of discouraging attacks against that power. The thesis of a subculture of violence is briefly outlined and refers to a system of norms and values set apart from the dominant nonviolent culture and which expect or require the use of violence in many kinds of social relationships. Marvin E. Wolfgang, Ph.D., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is Professor and Graduate Chairman, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. He has been Social Science Research Council Fellow (1955); Fulbright Research Scholar (1957); and Guggenheim Fellow (1957-58). He is currently President, Pennsylvania Prison Society; President-Elect, American Society of Criminology; member of the Scientific Committee, International Society of Criminology; Criminology Editor, Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science; Codirector, Study of Violence Project, University of Puerto Rico; and Codirector, Center of Criminological Research, University of Penn- sylvania. His publications include Patterns in Criminal Homicide (1958), The Measure- ment of Delinquency (with T. Sellin, 1964), and Crime and Race: Conceptions and Misconceptions (1964). 1

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