Dr Katherine Kaufer ChristofTel, in her editorial "Reducing Violence—How Do We Proceed? called violence an aspect of injury "in which human agency is most critical,"' Yet she nevertheless asserted that " 'intentional injury' terminology ,,, misleadingly suggest[s] that perpetrators always intend to harm" and mentioned efforts by the National Center for Injury Prevention to move away from such language. In addition, she presented "a diagram of the biopsychosocial pathways involved in the manifestations of,,, homicides," claiming the problem "is at least as complex as metabolic pathways," It is my fear that models for understanding violence such as Dr Christoffel's represent only the latest phase of a long-standing effort by social science and
