Violence in Society

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...

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, ...