Violence in Society

Slaps in the face, kicks, beatings, and other forms of run-of-the-mill violence were a quotidian part of life in German Southwest Africa at the beg...

Hostis humani generis, meaning enemy of humankind, is the legal basis by which Western societies have defined such criminals as pirates, torturer...

Powerful tools for spreading peace in your community Unfounded beliefs and hateful political and social divisions that can cascade into violence ar...

The mafia is the impenetrable and seemingly infallible embodiment of notoriety and criminality. Umberto Santino, one of Italy's leading mafia exper...

Winner of the 2018 PEN Translates Award for Non-Fiction Features illustrations by the Honduran artist Germán Andino Welcome to a country that h...

A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflic...

On February 26th 2012 seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home with a bag of Skittles and a can of juice when a fatal encounter with a gu...

In The Normality of Civil War, Teresa Koloma Beck uses theories of the everyday to analyze the social processes of civil war, specifically the type...

War is a mans game, or so goes the saying. Whether this is true or not, patriarchal capitalism is certainly one of the driving forces behind war in...

An old enemy, a new threat, and a secret that could tear the world apart.Hostage negotiator Ethan Munroe is called urgently to a developing crime s...

From Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of I Choose Elena, comes an immersive polyphonic memoir exploring the intricacies of abuse, trauma, and shame. ...

  A brave, beautifully told story of an Afro-American teen dealing with colourism, racism and bullying - but given hope by the ...

No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past. History is not simply about recording past eventsit is often c...

This book aims to challenge current thinking about serious youth violence and gangs, and their racialisation by the media and the police. Written b...

Three decades ago this year (2017), Woodrow W. Clark completed his PhD thesis at the University of California, Berkeley on Violence in Public Schoo...

However repugnant, torture has been practised, either publicly approved or clandestinely, for thousands of years. From the rack to electrodes, from...