Violence in Society

Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if so, does it cause conflict more than other social identities? Through an extended...

Every time a young person is harmed by violence, our nation''''s future strength and growth are jeopardised. We are losing our next generation of y...

The American public has expressed increasing alarm over incidents of multiple casualty violence. While the law enforcement community has progressed...

Eventos catalogados mediaticamente como ajusticiamientos populares , estallidos , puebladas o linchamientos , entre otras denominaciones, se h...

Strengthen your understanding of the persuasive mechanisms used by terrorist groups and how they are effective in order to defeat them. Weaponized ...

In The Frontier Effect, Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the cause of the region's violent history and unruly contemporary...

Official stories say that violence in Latin America is a product of criminal activity and the drug trade. Organized Violence exposes how that narra...

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's open access publishing ...

Why has violence spiked in Latin America's contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region's uneve...

Why has violence spiked in Latin America''s contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region''s une...

South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Tw...

South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Tw...

Human violence is an inescapable aspect of our society and culture. As the archaeological record clearly shows, this has always been true. What is ...

Seeking to expand the transformative aspect of conflict resolution, the contributors to this edited collection have focused on gathering scholar...

Courage, compassion, decisiveness, logic, empathy, love--the fundamental virtues of peace have inspired nonviolent heroes to action and driven chan...

In this revised, updated and expanded edition, the author explores the life of Theodore Bundy, one of the more infamous--and flamboyant--America...

Its widely accepted that Transcendental Meditation (TM) can create peace for the individual, but can it create peace in society as a whole? And if ...