Violence in Society

'A vivid, inspiring and sometimes poetic history of modern Iraq' - miriam cooke Following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, many Iraqi academics we...

Armed conflicts continue to wreak havoc on children and families around the world with profound effects. In 2017, 420 million children—nearly one i...

Armed conflicts continue to wreak havoc on children and families around the world with profound effects. In 2017, 420 million children—nearly one i...

For incarcerated fathers, prison rather than work mediates access to their families. Prison rules and staff regulate phone privileges, access to wr...

Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often invo...

In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relations...

Africa as a continent, which holds strong to its patriarchal cultural principles and practices, is known for its blatant display of violent abuse o...

Understanding America’s Gun Culture focuses on building understanding of some of the issues associated with US gun culture and the contemporary deb...

Contemporary Issues in Victimology: Identifying Patterns and Trends examines current topics in victimology and explores the main issues surrounding...

In No Middle Ground: Anti-Imperialists and Ethical Witnessing During the Philippine-American War, Erin L. Murphy argues that activists in the Anti-...

Focusing on the South African city of Durban, Security in the Bubble looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas...

Bosnian Refugees in Chicago: Gender, Performance, and Post-War Economies studies refugee migration through the experiences of survivors of the 1990...

The author investigates the internal logic and evolution of Mao's theory in terms of various themes. Beginning with a consideration of conflict, wh...

Although many scholars have studied terrorism, few scholars have ever studied terrorism from the aspect of its initial origins in social movements....

This is a story of crime-engaged youth who have been given a second chance. New York City teens are often faced with conditions that lead to poor e...

In 2001, following a generation of armed conflict and authoritarian rule, the Peruvian state created a Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC). Pa...

Springfield. Columbine. Sandy Hook. Each school shooting in the United States is followed by a series of questions. Why does this happen? Who are t...

Religiously motivated violence caused by the fusion of state and religion occurred in medieval Tibet and Bhutan and later in imperial Japan, but in...

Audience Responses to Real Media Violence: The Knockout Game considers an emerging and relatively overlooked area of media effects research: user-g...