Violence in Society

Mediation, Conciliation, and Emotions: The Role of Emotional Climate in Understanding Violence and Mental Illness, the revised edition of the grou...

Relying primarily on a narrative, chronological approach, this study examines Ku Klux Klan activities in Pennsylvania’s twenty-five western-most co...

Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and so...

Mediation, Conciliation, and Emotions: The Role of Emotional Climate in Understanding Violence and Mental Illness, the revised edition of the grou...

 In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction....

In the aftermath of the genocide, the Rwandan government has attempted to use the education system in order to sustain peace and shape a new genera...

Contemporary Hollywood films commonly use mental disorders as a magnifier by which social, political, or economic problems become enlarged in order...

Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War examines the extent to which black gangsterism is a product o...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This book is freely available in an open access edition th...

This work builds on established literature that is centered on how the activists see themselves, their groups, and the national movement promoting ...

This book explores the nature of power in persons, groups, and nations by asking a question that we can understand in contemporary terms: what woul...

Many people have experienced or witnessed situations in which people drinking alcohol get aggressive, obnoxious, and violent. Scientific research h...

Public expression in the United States has become increasingly coarse. Whether it’s stupid, rude, base, or anti-intellectual talk, it surrounds us....

Stories of soldiers suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder dominate news coverage of the return from wars in the Middle East. On the surface...

Campbell offers a conceptual look into the nature of genocidal intent, systematically analyzing the conceptual and logical structures for genocidal...

This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular c...

This book is part of a two volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular c...

Everyday Violence is based on ten years of scholarly rage against catcalling and aggression directed at women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgend...

Gender-based violence is a convoluted concept with no single explanation or solution. Abiodun Raufu, Omolade Olunike OLOMOLA, and Edidiong Mendie b...

Violence in election campaigns is common across the African continent and beyond. According to some estimations, most African elections contain som...

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

This book explores a traumatic event known throughout India as Operation Bluestar. During the Operation, the Indian army entered one of Sikhism’s m...

Drawing on data from three different insurgent groups within the Cambodian conflict, the book shows how the social backgrounds of combatants and co...

News discourse helps us understand society and how we respond to traumatic events. News Framing of School Shootings: Journalism and American Social...

Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics brings together scholars from across the globe to provide diverse perspec...

This book is an historical account of the emergence of youth gangs and the transformation of these into street gangs in the United States. The auth...

American Literature, Lynching, and the Spectator in the Crowd: Spectacular Violence examines spectatorship in American literature at the turn of th...

In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist and activist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland...

Media representations and practices that have emerged out of contemporary wars have been well documented by a wide array of books and articles. The...

In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist and activist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland...

Using France as a case study, contributors from around the world explore the factors that create violent extremists, including criminogenic needs, ...

The residents of Caxambu, a squatter neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, live in a state of insecurity as they face urban violence. Living with Insecur...

Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators o...

Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators o...

Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico: The Transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto examines the major trends in o...

Between 1975 and 1979 the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia enacted a program of organized mass violence that resulted in the deaths of approximately ...

Between 1975 and 1979 the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia enacted a program of organized mass violence that resulted in the deaths of approximately ...

In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist Jason De Leon sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time-the human ...

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

Ethnography as Risky Business: Field Research in Violent and Sensitive Contexts offers a hands-on, critical appraisal of how to approach ethnograph...

This newly revised edition includes two new chapters exploring events in policing since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO in 2014. More th...

They usually start out as ordinary people, doing their best to deal with mixed messages in a complex world. What they donOt realize is that they ma...

Approaches to Conflict: Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics aims to investigate the role of communication and emotions in conflict ...

Engendered Death: Pennsylvania Women Who Kill is an historical and interdisciplinary study of women who kill in Pennsylvania from the 18th century ...

In post-Wall Germany, violence—both real and imagined—is increasingly determining the formation of new cultural identities. Patricia Anne Simpson’s...