Violence in Society

This book outlines for the first time in a single volume the theoretical and methodological tools for a study of human remains resulting from episo...

There is tremendous controversy across the United States (and beyond) when a police officer uses deadly force against an unarmed citizen, but often...

The crime of homicide has long animated academic debate, community concern and political attention. The discussion has often centered on the percei...

Dark Ideas is the first book of its kind to show how ideas have transformed violent extremism over the past six decades. Certain violent jihadi and...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been called the worst place in the world for women, with reports of widespread and horrific incidents of...

This book analyses the role of war and violence (in both its physical and symbolic forms) for social work in a time of neoliberal globalisation fro...

This comprehensive volume brings together a diverse set of scholars to analyse candidate nomination, intra-party democracy, and election violence i...

Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate t...

The toll of Americas gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lostmore than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many mo...

The toll of Americas gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lostmore than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many mo...

This book is aimed at employers, managers and staff in social work agencies. Historically there has been a slowness to acknowledge the risks which ...

This book estimates the proceeds of crime and mafia revenues for different criminal markets such as sexual exploitation, drugs, illicit cigarettes,...

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J. Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican text and music, how that...

The U.S.-Mexico border has earned an enduring reputation as a site of violence. During the past twenty years in particular, the drug wars--fueled b...

The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the ...

This book contributes to the scientific and ideological debate on child sexual abuse and illuminates the trainer practitioner in the process by rec...

Exploring the connection between tourism and violence, this book draws on a range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultur...

This international collection examines violence and abuse in and around organisations. The collection documents the causes, specifically from the p...

Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we a...

This book provides a comprehensive dissemination of theoretically grounded and empirically sound research on sex offenders and sex offending. It us...