Violence in Society

A groundbreaking overview of transgender relationship violence In the course of their lives, around fifty percent of transgender people will experi...

Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory, methods, and practices that are cur...

Understanding America's Gun Culture focuses on building understanding of some of the issues associated with U.S. gun culture and the contemporary d...

Studies of genocide and mass atrocity most often focus on their causes and consequences, their aims and effects, and the number of people killed. B...

The second edition of Inequality and Violence in the United States: Casualties of Capitalism (2004) won the Best Book of the Year award from the Ma...

This book builds a theoretical perspective for explaining what security remains after the security event. It studies in detail the evolution of sec...

I would find refuge, and he would find me and ruin it. I remember everything. I can still hear 13-year-old her (me) screaming and crying, No, no! I...

Explores the significance of postwar German representations of violence in other places and times. Germany's twentieth-century history has made im...

Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember, face and deal with histories of past violence. This book, however, shifts t...

A cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and society phenomena are formed, reproduced, and a...

Many countries throughout Latin America have experienced high levels of corruption, drug trafficking, and violence, which has created elements of f...

Biggs deftly blends historical research with creative retelling, bringing prison records to full and chilling life. - The New StatesmanCambridge Un...