Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis

This text is just one of many of the Bandura must haves as it relates to the study of aggression and aggressive behavior in both adult and youthful offenders.

This is a classic work on the origins of aggression. The sociallearning analysis spans a broad range of phenomena includingrevolutions, urban strife, protests, crime and correctionalmechanisms, the mass media, enforcement and individual modalitiesof aggression and the manifestations thereof.The author believesthat a theory of aggression must explain not only how aggressionpatterns develop, but also how it is that some stimulii becomeelicitors of aggression while others do not. This book providesmuch discussion on classic arguments in the social learningarena.