Violence in Society

Salem, King James VI, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch hunts and witch trials sounds antiquated, relics of an unenlightened and brutal age. ...

Growing up in an Italian American family in Queens, New York, in the 70s, Francesca Miracola was trained from an early age to keep up appearances a...

In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to exterminatio...

Since 1964, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the countrys own military. Ci...

By demonstrating how forgiveness, approached in the correct manner, benefits the forgiver far more than the forgiven this self-help book benefits p...

Challenges to racialized policing, from early reform efforts to BLM protests and the aftermath of George Floyds murder The eruption of Black Lives ...

Despite the conclusion of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg that aggression is the 'supreme international crime', armed conflict rem...

Gender-based violence is a global phenomenon which affects millions worldwide. However, despite the increasing attention which is now paid to this ...

In the period from 1500 to 1800 the problem of violence necessitated asking fundamental questions and formulating answers about the most basic form...

A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality. An ugly subject, but one that needs to be treated thoro...

Home is where the heart is. But home is also the most common site for murder. The grimly fascinating new book from the UK's leading criminologist D...

Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential 'stateless' space, where the gov...

Bleeding Hearts: From Passionate Activism to Violent Insurgency in Egypt examines the wave of violence that broke out in Egypt in the aftermath of ...

Who would go to prison on purpose?Incarcerated Resistance tells the stories of 43 activists from the School of the Americas Watch and Plowshares mo...

The association between violence and mental illness is well studied, yet remains highly controversial. Currently, there does appear to be a trend o...

A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of law enforcement in the United States.   Too often, scholars and pundits arg...

A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of law enforcement in the United States.   Too often, scholars and pundits arg...

A timely examination of the plight of children and youths in developing nations. The chapters strike a balance between diagnostic analysis of the c...

Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Demo...

How can we account for the apparent increase in ethnic violence across the globe? Donald L. Donham develops a methodology for understanding violenc...

How do contemporary female authors in Latin America tackle gender violence in their writings? This book analyses the portrayal of violence against...