Violence in Society

Feelings at the Margins offers a uniquely interdisciplinary take on the contemporary phenomenon of marginalization in Indonesia and its emotional i...

Understanding the territorial basis of political power and wealth is the pre-requisite, the author argues, for making sense of issues as diverse as...

In Killing Others, Matthew Lange explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic communities. Drawing on an array of cases ...

From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying, todays governments have harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect. ...

Central American nations have recently had the highest per capita homicide rates in the worldsurpassing the per capita death toll even in war-torn ...

Sunni and Shia in Iran, Iraq, or Syria. Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. Afrikaners and black churches in South Africa. The rising ti...

In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as ...

'People didn't talk about the team, they talked about the mob that came with them'Terrifyingly vicious, brilliantly organised, tremendously feared ...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most dis...

The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psyc...

Over much of its rule, the regime of Hafez al-Asad and his successor Bashar al-Asad deployed violence on a massive scale to maintain its grip on po...

The autumn and winter of 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student protests across the UK, in response to the coalition government's savage cuts in...

What does it take to make good people do bad things? Unlock the door to the criminal mind in The Line, the outstanding debut from Irelands leading ...

If democracy liberates individuals from their inherited bonds, what can reunite them into a sovereign people? In The Virtues of Violence, Kevin Duo...

Violence is widely associated with illegal drug markets, and is one of the features that can differentiate illegal capitalism from legitimate busin...

On 6th September 1949, twenty-eight-year-old Howard Barton Unruh shot thirteen people in less than twelve minutes on his block in East Camden, New ...

'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream conversation sur...

Groomed and procured by a woman, raped by several men and labelled one of the most abused girl in Rotherham, now Elizabeth Harper is f...