Violence in Society

How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportuni...

At a time when mass shootings in schools and other public spaces have become commonplace, it might seem surprising that American college campuse...

In the late 19th century Ohio was reeling from a wave of lynchings and other acts of racially motivated mob violence. Many of these acts were at...

For many years after that night, my memories of what happened after he held the blade to my throat and threatened my life were fragmented...difficu...

What is crime? What constitutes violence? What is it permissible to talk about or describe in cultural depictions of crime and violence? What is th...

The killing of Anwar Al-Awlaki and another U.S. citizen by airstrike in Yemen, although never officially attributed to U.S. military action, has fu...

This two-part volume provides consensus recommendations for researchers, practitioners, advocates, policymakers, and all those who seek more effect...

This volume explores the life stories of Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Alice James, and Edith Wharton, whose individuation process mirrored Dem...

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Why is liberalism so obsessed with waste? Is there a drone above you now? Are you living in a no-fly zone? What is the role of masculinity in the '...

Is a teenage violent offender a dangerous predator-or a vulnerable innocent that we should rescue from a life of crime? J. William Spencer probes o...

Wars are frequently justified 'in our name'. Militarist values and practices co-opt us, permeating our language, invading our dream space, entertai...

This is a volume of essays on post-civil war Central American narrative, bringing together leading experts in Central American literary and cultura...

For too long the global sex industry and its vested interests have dominated the prostitution debate repeating the same old line that sex work is j...

Why is liberalism so obsessed with waste? Is there a drone above you now? Are you living in a no-fly zone? What is the role of masculinity in the '...

Congress has maintained an interest in the effects of gang violence in Central America, and on the expanding activities of transnational gangs with...