An End to Murder: A Criminologist's View of Violence Throughout History

Human beings have always been cruel, savage, and murderous. Is that all about to change?

Human history can be seen as a catalog of coldhearted murders, mindless blood feuds, appalling massacres, and devastating wars. Creatively and intellectually, there is no other species that has ever come close to equaling humanity’s achievements, but neither is any other species as suicidally prone to internecine conflict. We are the only species on the planet whose ingrained habit of conflict and perpet...