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International Handbook of Violence Research

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Heitmeyer, Wilhelm, Hagan, John (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
Subjects:
Sociology, General
Social Sciences
Social Sciences, General
Criminology And Criminal Justice, General
Criminology
Sociology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Violence: The Difficulties of a Systematic International Review
  • 2. The Concept of Violence
  • 3. The Long-Term Development of Violence: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Approaches to Interpretation
  • 1.1.1 Poverty and Violence
  • 1.1.2 Ethnic Segregation and Violence
  • 1.1.3 A Comparative Examination of Gender Perspectives on Violence
  • 1.2.1 Violence and the Rise of the State
  • 1.2.2 Holocaust
  • 1.2.3 Violence within the Military
  • 1.2.4 Violence in Prisons/Torture
  • 1.2.5 Violence and the Police
  • 2.1 Ethnopolitical Conflict and Separatist Violence
  • 2.2 Ethnic Violence
  • 2.3 The Socio-Anthropological Interpretation of Violence
  • 2.4 Civil Wars
  • 2.5 Terrorism
  • 2.6 Violence from Religious Groups
  • 2.7 Vigilantism
  • 2.8 Pogroms
  • 2.9 Violence and New Social Movements
  • 2.10 Violence and the New Left
  • 2.11 Right-Wing Extremist Violence
  • 2.12 Large-Scale Violence as Contentious Politics
  • 3.1.1 The Social Psychology of Aggression and Violence
  • 2. Strategies and Problems in Quantitative Research on Aggression and Violence
  • IV. Subject Index
  • V. Name Index
  • VI. The Authors
  • 3.1.2 Emotions and Aggressiveness
  • 3.1.3 Learning of Aggression in the Home and the Peer Group
  • 3.1.4 Violence and the Media
  • 3.1.5 Patterns and Explanations of Direct Physical and Indirect Nonphysical Aggression in Childhood
  • 3.2.1 Evolutionary Psychology of Lethal Interpersonal Violence
  • 3.2.2 The Nature-Nurture Problem in Violence
  • 3.3.1 Sociological Approaches to Individual Violence and Their Empirical Evaluation
  • 3.3.2 Youth Violence and Guns
  • 3.3.3 Organized Crime and Violence
  • 3.3.4 Understanding Cross-National Variation in Criminal Violence
  • 4.1 Violence against Children
  • 4.2 Violence in Intimate Relationships
  • 4.3 Suicide
  • 4.4 Violence against the Socially Expendable
  • 4.5 Violence against Ethnic and Religious Minorities
  • 4.6 Hate Crimes Directed at Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Victims
  • 4.7 Trauma and Violence in Children and Adolescents: A Developmental Perspective
  • 5.1.1 Violence in the Family
  • 5.1.2 Violence in School
  • 5.1.3 Work-Related Violence
  • 5.1.4 Violence and Sport
  • 5.2.1 Violence on the Roads
  • 5.2.2 Juvenile and Urban Violence
  • 6.1.1 Political Cultural Studies and Violence
  • 6.1.2 The Role of Elites in Legitimizing Violence
  • 6.1.3 Violence in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
  • 6.1.4 Sacrifice and Holy War: A Study of Religion and Violence
  • 6.1.5 Violence and the Glorification of Violence in the Literature of the Twentieth Century
  • 6.2.1 The State Monopoly of Force
  • 6.2.2 The Monopoly of Legitimate Violence and Criminal Policy
  • 6.2.3 Freedom to Demonstrate and the Use of Force: Criminal Law as a Threat to Basic Political Rights
  • 6.2.4 The Right to Resist
  • 6.2.5 Individual Violence Justification Strategies
  • 7.1 Fear of Violent Crime
  • 7.2 Public Opinion and Violence
  • 7.3 Groups, Gangs and Violence
  • 7.4 Escalation and De-Escalation of Social Conflicts: The Road to Violence
  • 1. Potentials and Limits of Qualitative Methods for Research on Violence

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