This multi-disciplinary anthology explores the topic of violence from a wide variety of perspectives. It looks at state violence, dealing with nationalism, warmaking and the Nazi genocide; anti-state violence with essays on the IRA; and criminal violence such as armed robbery.
Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety
Shows that the myth that mental illness is strongly linked to violence makes us all less safe Mass shootings have become a defining issue of our time. Whenever the latest act of newsworthy violence occurs, mental illness is inevitably cited as a preeminent cause by members of the news media and political sphere alike. Violence and Mental ......
Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety
Shows that the myth that mental illness is strongly linked to violence makes us all less safe Mass shootings have become a defining issue of our time. Whenever the latest act of newsworthy violence occurs, mental illness is inevitably cited as a preeminent cause by members of the news media and political sphere alike. Violence and Mental ......
Guides healthcare professionals, particularly ED personnel, and ED and hospital administrators, about ED Violence to emphasize that this kind of violence poses a serious and real threat to personnel and facilities. This title provides authoritative guidance, assessment tools, and a direction for creating a violence-free ED Environment.
The Lifelong Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Immigrant Women
Explores experiences with disability and aging for immigrant survivors of domestic violence across the life course Across the United States, one in three women experiences violence in their intimate relationships. More resources are now being devoted to providing these women with immediate care; but what happens to survivors, especially ......
The Lifelong Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Immigrant Women
Explores experiences with disability and aging for immigrant survivors of domestic violence across the life course Across the United States, one in three women experiences violence in their intimate relationships. More resources are now being devoted to providing these women with immediate care; but what happens to survivors, especially ......
Amidst the carnage of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg posed a stark choice for humanity: socialism or barbarism. Violence Today asks if current patterns mark a decent into the barbarism that Luxemburg feared and if a just society, one capable of transcending the endemic violence of the neoliberal order, is possible in the new century. This ......
Understanding the Psychology of Perpetrators through South Africa's Trut
Presents a compelling study of how ordinary people commit extraordinary acts of violence and how perpetrators and victims manage in the aftermath. Grounded in extensive, qualitative analysis of perpetrator testimony, this book reveals the individual experiences of perpetrators and general patterns of influence that lead to collective violence.
