International Handbook of Violence Research

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Violence: The Difficulties of a Systematic International Review....Pages 3-11
The Concept of Violence....Pages 13-39
The Long-Term Development of Violence: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Approaches to Interpretation....Pages 41-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Poverty and Violence....Pages 67-82
Ethnic Segregation and Violence....Pages 83-96
A Comparative Examination of Gender Perspectives on Violence....Pages 97-117
Violence and the Rise of the State....Pages 121-137
Holocaust....Pages 139-169
Violence within the Military....Pages 171-187
Violence in Prisons/Torture....Pages 189-205
Violence and the Police....Pages 207-224
Ethnopolitical Conflict and Separatist Violence....Pages 227-245
Ethnic Violence....Pages 247-260
The Socio-Anthropological Interpretation of Violence....Pages 261-290
Civil Wars....Pages 291-308
Terrorism....Pages 309-321
Violence from Religious Groups....Pages 323-338
Vigilantism....Pages 339-349
Pogroms....Pages 351-367
Violence and New Social Movements....Pages 369-382
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
The Social Psychology of Aggression and Violence....Pages 459-478
Emotions and Aggressiveness....Pages 479-493
Learning of Aggression in the Home and the Peer Group....Pages 495-509
Violence and the Media....Pages 511-541
Patterns and Explanations of Direct Physical and Indirect Nonphysical Aggression in Childhood....Pages 543-565
Evolutionary Psychology of Lethal Interpersonal Violence....Pages 569-588
The Nature-Nurture Problem in Violence....Pages 589-607
Sociological Approaches to Individual Violence and Their Empirical Evaluation....Pages 611-656
Youth Violence and Guns....Pages 657-677
Organized Crime and Violence....Pages 679-699
Understanding Cross-National Variation in Criminal Violence....Pages 701-716
Violence against Children....Pages 719-735
Violence in Intimate Relationships....Pages 737-752
Suicide....Pages 753-765
Violence against the Socially Expendable....Pages 767-783
Violence against Ethnic and Religious Minorities....Pages 785-799
Hate Crimes Directed at Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Victims....Pages 801-815
Violence and the New Left....Pages 383-398
Right-Wing Extremist Violence....Pages 399-436
Large-Scale Violence as Contentious Politics....Pages 437-454
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Fear of Violent Crime....Pages 1131-1149
Public Opinion and Violence....Pages 1151-1166
Groups, Gangs and Violence....Pages 1167-1180
Violence in the Family....Pages 837-862
Violence in School....Pages 863-884
Work-Related Violence....Pages 885-902
Violence and Sport....Pages 903-920
The State Monopoly of Force....Pages 1043-1056
The Monopoly of Legitimate Violence and Criminal Policy....Pages 1057-1077
Freedom to Demonstrate and the Use of Force....Pages 1079-1096
The Right to Resist....Pages 1097-1111
Individual Violence Justification Strategies....Pages 1113-1127
Violence on the Roads....Pages 923-935
Juvenile and Urban Violence....Pages 937-952
Political Cultural Studies and Violence....Pages 957-972
The Role of Elites in Legitimizing Violence....Pages 973-987
Violence in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy....Pages 989-1004
Sacrifice and Holy War: A Study of Religion and Violence....Pages 1005-1021
Violence and the Glorification of Violence in the Literature of the Twentieth Century....Pages 1023-1039
Trauma and Violence in Children and Adolescents: A Developmental Perspective....Pages 817-832
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Escalation and De-Escalation of Social Conflicts: The Road to Violence....Pages 1181-1199
Front Matter....Pages 1201-1201
Potentials and Limits of Qualitative Methods for Research on Violence....Pages 1203-1218
Strategies and Problems in Quantitative Research on Aggression and Violence....Pages 1219-1237
Back Matter....Pages 1239-1288