Violence in Society

How do economic conditions such as poverty, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth impact youth violence? Economics and Youth Violence provid...

We know of the blood and tears provoked by the projects of transformation of the world through war or revolution. Starting from the essay published...

How do collective actors move from moderate politics to (violent) extremism? Faced with high risks of repression and implosion, they need to legiti...

In a period marked by growing fluidity between the West and the Communist nations, the role of revolution as an instrument of political and social ...

Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude...

Far too many poor Black communities struggle with gun violence and homicide. The result has been the unnatural contortion of Black families and the...

For the past 150 years, the Ku Klux Klan has murdered and tortured its way through US history. By reputation it is one of the most notorious and ul...

The thrilling story of the Jews in Venice – and the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters.Millions of visitors flood to Venice e...

Despite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal perspectives seem to agree about one thing:...

Illuminates the threats Black women face and the lack of substantive public policy towards gendered violence Black women in marginalized communitie...

During the past half century, Latin America has evolved from a region of political instability and frequent dictatorships into one of elected gover...

Guangxi, a region on China's southern border with Vietnam, has a large population of ethnic minorities and a history of rebellion and intergroup co...

This book examines the failure of 'development' in Central America, where despite billions of dollars of development funding and positive indicator...

Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory, methods, and practices that are cur...

Studies of genocide and mass atrocity most often focus on their causes and consequences, their aims and effects, and the number of people killed. B...

This book builds a theoretical perspective for explaining what security remains after the security event. It studies in detail the evolution of sec...

Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember, face and deal with histories of past violence. This book, however, shifts t...

Many countries throughout Latin America have experienced high levels of corruption, drug trafficking, and violence, which has created elements of f...

“Biggs deftly blends historical research with creative retelling, bringing prison records to full and chilling life.” - The New StatesmanCambridge ...

This book builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow the ...

At least 200,000 people have died in Mexico’s so-called drug war, and the worst suffering has been in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso...

Going postal. We think of the rogue employee who snaps. But in Blood, Sweat, and Fear, Jeremy Milloy demonstrates that workplace violence never occ...

Honorable Mention for Best Book Award from the Historia Reciente y Memoria Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Memories before...

2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Short-listed for the Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America from Duke University Librar...

Skin Crafts discusses multiple artists from global contexts who employ craft materials in works that address historical and contemporary violence. ...