The aim of the center, even after revisions and pubic response periods, was to use the center to work on psychiatric and neuroscience research aimed at discovering causes and treatments for what was presumed to be biologically driven violent behaviors. The draft proposals also included planned research focusing on urban population, mental hospital patients, prisoners, and women. 

Purpose of The Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence

The Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence was proposed and introduced by then-Governor Ronald Reagan in his January 1973 California State of the State address.

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In 1973 the Black Panther Party addressed the California State Senate, with representation from lawyer Fred J. Hiestand, about their opposition to the Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Black Panther Party Testimony to the California State Senate

Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027003

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