Examines the role of violence in America's past, exploring its history and development, from slave patrols in the Colonial South to gun ownership in the twentieth century
Using first-person accounts, this book describes a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. The author places spiritual matters within a discussion of the psycho-social impact of intimate assault.
War affects women in profoundly different ways than men. Women play many roles during wartime: they are "gendered" as mothers, as soldiers, as munitions makers, as caretakers, as sex workers. How is it that womanhood in the context of war may mean, for one woman, tearfully sending her son off to war, and for another, engaging in civil ......
Women play many roles during wartime. This compelling study brings together the work of foremost scholars on women and war to address questions of ethnicity, women and the war complex, peacemaking, motherhood, and more. It leaves behind outdated arguments about militarist men and pacifist women, while still recognizing differences in men's and ......
Why do some conflicts escalate into violence while others dissipate harmlessly? While homicide has been viewed largely in the pathological terms of crime and deviance, violence, the author contends, is a naturally-occurring form of conflict found throughout history and across cultures under certain social conditions.
Why do some conflicts escalate into violence while others dissipate harmlessly? While homicide has been viewed largely in the pathological terms of crime and deviance, violence, the author contends, is a naturally-occurring form of conflict found throughout history and across cultures under certain social conditions.
Impulsivity features in many psychiatric disorders, and is an element in the clinical risk assessment of violence. This book seeks to illuminate impulsive behaviour and the challenges of measuring it. With special emphasis on violent behaviour, this volume includes several risk-assessment tools.
Social scientists examine political violence, which they limit to struggles against governments recognized by the UN, which supported the research project. They argue that violence evolves and takes on a life of its own independent of both the people who engage in it and the reasons they do so. In
Violence, nationalism, and politics are inextricably linked in such controversial political movements as Neo-Nazism in contemporary Germany and the Shi'ia in Lebanon. By analyzing the diverse factors which lead to violent acts, this volume addresses the complexity and the correlations between politics and violence.
