The book is divided into nine chapters that review the topics noted, among others: (1) Looking at the Numbers; (2) Traumatogenic Forces in Society (childbearing conditions and practices; disavowal of emotions and emotional numbing; sexism; gender, male conditioning, and violence; injustice, poverty, and race; social stress; existential confusion and the problems of evil); (3) Where Violence Occurs (family, workplace, school, church); (4) Active Support for Violence (firearms, substance abuse, pornography, media violence); (5) Our Response to Violence (crime and punishment, failure to protect, robopathology, protective factors); (6) Normal Reactions to Abnormal Stress (fight-or-flight, learned helplessness, attachment behavior, and 17 other stress-related behaviors); (7) Tertiary Prevention: Fixing What Is Already Broken (trauma-based principles for intervention, establishing safety); (8) Secondary Prevention: Containing the Traumatic Infection (a bill of rights for children, prisons and the criminal justice system, spiritual support for nonviolence); and (9) Primary Prevention: Ending the Cycles of Violence (promoting resiliency, a community response to violence). Bibliography, index