Violence in Society

On February 26th 2012 seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home with a bag of Skittles and a can of juice when a fatal encounter with a gu...

In The Normality of Civil War, Teresa Koloma Beck uses theories of the everyday to analyze the social processes of civil war, specifically the type...

War is a mans game, or so goes the saying. Whether this is true or not, patriarchal capitalism is certainly one of the driving forces behind war in...

An old enemy, a new threat, and a secret that could tear the world apart.Hostage negotiator Ethan Munroe is called urgently to a developing crime s...

From Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of I Choose Elena, comes an immersive polyphonic memoir exploring the intricacies of abuse, trauma, and shame. ...

  A brave, beautifully told story of an Afro-American teen dealing with colourism, racism and bullying - but given hope by the ...

No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past. History is not simply about recording past eventsit is often c...

This book aims to challenge current thinking about serious youth violence and gangs, and their racialisation by the media and the police. Written b...

Three decades ago this year (2017), Woodrow W. Clark completed his PhD thesis at the University of California, Berkeley on Violence in Public Schoo...

However repugnant, torture has been practised, either publicly approved or clandestinely, for thousands of years. From the rack to electrodes, from...

Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughters struggle to face the Medusa of generational...

In The Myth of Mob Rule, Lisa Miller compares three countries--the US, the UK, and the Netherlands--and explores when and with what consequences cr...

The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called Tzompaxtle, although in English it has another title, Torn from the Worl...

Uro Mati and Bo Jensen have brought together a team of both young and senior researches from many different countries in this first volume that aim...

The developmental perspective is becoming increasingly significant in criminology and in research on antisocial and criminal behavior. Developmenta...