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Violence : do we know it when we see it? : a reader / edited by Dee Wood Harper, Lydia Voigt, William E. Thornton.
Violence: Do We Know It When We See It?: A Reader is designed to be used with Why Violence?. This two-volume set explores the many ways in which violence is understood and manifest in contemporary society. This reader provides primary source materials in support of the key discussion points featured in the text, reflecting multidisciplinary, cross-cultural, and historical perspectives.
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- ISBN: 9781594608810 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1594608814 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xxv, 478 p. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Violence : do we know it when we see it? -- Violence : definition, spheres, and principles / Peter Iadicola -- Violence against women : colliding realities / Patricia Easteal -- Intimate partner homicide followed by suicide : a case of gendered violence / Dee Wood Harper and Lydia Voigt -- Predicting the risk of violence in offenders with intellectual and developmental disabilities / William R. Lindsay -- Violence : where do we look for it? -- Disasters, the emergence of corrosive communities and violence / Kelly Frailing -- Southern violence : a contemporary overview / Matthew R. Lee and Graham C. Ousey -- "You can't do crack on credit" : drug and retaliatory murder / Jana J. Levitov and Dee Wood Harper -- As terrifying as terror is -- are we safer? : a survey of the state of 'Homeland Security' / Bethany L. Brown -- Violence : what do we know? -- News construction of urban violence : fear and the making of the prototypical criminal / Stephen F. Ostertag -- Victim-blame and the media : the portrayal of femicide in newspaper stories / Rae Taylor -- The social construction of suicide, suicide rates, and the suicidal act / Hugh P. Whitt, Jay Corzine and Lin Huff-Corzine -- Rap and the glorification of guns and violence in inner city youth culture / Ashish Patel and James D. Wright -- Getting away with murder : a review of arrest clearances / Marc Riedel -- Violence : whom do we believe? -- War : taxonomy, mythology, reality / John Mosier -- Guantanamo continued / Johanna Kalb -- Racial discrimination and the death penalty in the United States / Robert M. Bohm -- Corporate violence : the EPA's criminalization and control of environmental destruction / Leo G. Barrile and Neal Slone -- Pedophilia and the U.S. Catholic Church : victimization and its effects / Brenda K. Vollman -- Is nonviolence possible? -- Beyond the crime narrative : communities build partnerships to reduce violence / Pamela J. Jenkins -- Repairing harm through kith and kin / Loraine Gelsthorpe -- Post-hurricane Katrina corruption and human rights violations in New Orleans, Louisiana / Patrick D. Walsh, William E. Thornton and Lydia Voigt -- Is community peace possible? / Reba Parker. |
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Subject: | Violence. Violence > Social aspects. |