Violence in Society

Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of its public pasts, from Nelson Mandelas release from priso...

Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis, continues to devastate contemporary Britain. In The Violence of Austerity, Vickie ...

Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series, edited by David P. Pierson, explores the co...

Globalization, Gender, and Media tackles the emergence of sexy violence imagery and the coalescence of the sexual and violent meanings in contempor...

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

In this study of struggles for ethnoterritorial autonomy, Bethany Lacina explains regional elites decision whether or not to fight for autonomy, an...

In January 1847, a grain convoy passed through Buzançais, an obscure village in a remote region of central France that was suffering from hunger, ...

What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and victimhood culture have in common? Betraying Dignity argues that in the second decade of the twenty-f...

In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and vio...

In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave com...

Coercive control is a severe form of domestic violence experienced by millions of children worldwide. It involves a perpetrator using a range of ta...

Responding to the targeted destruction of women, Fields argues for establishing Gender as a protected class under the Genocide Convention. Cases ar...

Through the lens of education, this book attempts to situate young people within a number of theoretical and political considerations that offer up...

The ability of law enforcement agencies to manage and act upon intelligence is the key to countering terrorism. Likewise, a critical foundation of ...