Violence in Society

Police spokesperson and former TV journalist McIntosh Polela has been on our screens for many years. But behind his seemingly unfazed demeanour, a ...

Karachi is a city framed in the popular imagination by violence, be it criminality and gangsterism or political factionalism. That perception also ...

This powerful non-fiction account of the oppression of women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more tha...

Every time a shooting makes national headlines, the same debates erupt: Is the problem guns or mental health? Why is the United States unique in it...

Public mass killings are becoming more common. Though the chances of being harmed or killed in a mass shooting are slim, each incident affects t...

Southwest Book Awards, Border Regional Library Association (BRLA) Uses key words and striking images to explore violence and everyday life in Juáre...

In Ordering Violence, Paul Staniland advances a broad approach to armed politicsbringing together governments, insurgents, militias, and armed poli...

''These women are each a light and an inspiration, demonstrating how the best instincts of humanity - to love, to share, to protect others - can tr...

How did violence become OK? And is there any way back? At some point between George Floyd''s killing on May 25 and the invasion of the US Capito...

''Catch the Sparrow is true crime at its most personal and purposeful - heartfelt and intimate, noble and determined, meticulous and brave''Robert ...

Anti-Semitism revisited in a wholly original way Philippe SandsRippling with ideas on every page Jewish ChronicleTackles the issue [of anti-semitis...

Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general de...

Framing Violence: Conflicting Images, Identities, and Discourses explores many of the questions surrounding challenges in framing the rising violen...

Barry Oshry has a lifetime''s experience of working with social and organizational systems. Here he explains how we can understand - and avoi...

Violence: The Enduring Problem explores a number of different types of both individual and collective violent acts and examines the linkages, behav...

Volume 15 of Sociological Studies of Children and Youth investigates the interactional procedures used by children and young people as disputes ari...

The evil that permeates sex trafficking is not going to stop; but, it can be discouraged and abated and peoples lives spared the incalculable damag...

Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with...

In Australia violence against women is a silent epidemic. By the age of 15 almost 20% of women have experienced sexual violence and more than one i...