Authors:Jan E. M. Houben, Karel R. Van Kooij, K. R. van Kooi
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: violence, history, brill, indological, library, cultural, asian, denied, non, rationalization, south
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1999-06
List price: $230.00
ISBN-10: 9004113444
ISBN-13: 9789004113442
Historical and cultural aspects of the tensions between violence and its denial and rationalization in South Asia are taken up in the contributions of this volume. It deals with topics ranging from the origins of the concept of Ahimsa, to the iconography and interpretation of a self-beheading goddess, and violent heroines in Ajneya’s Hindi short stories.
Authors:Leonore Loeb Adler, Florence L. Denmark,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: violence, prevention
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $117.95
ISBN-10: 0275948730
ISBN-13: 9780275948733
Under the aegis of the two grandes dames of international studies in psychology, 23 experts examine violence in all of its multivarious forms around the world. They find that it is present in practically every society, at every socioeconomic level, and in every age group. The first group of essays look at violence as a societal phenomenon--its motivational aspects as related to, for example, terrorism or machismo. The second group of essays discuss violence involving children--incest, trauma, delinquency, school violence, and the death penalty for youths. The last section looks at adult violen
Author: Mary H. Moran
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: violence, political, ethnography, democracy, liberia
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2008-07-17
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0812220285
ISBN-13: 9780812220285
Liberia, a small West African country that has been wracked by violence and civil war since 1989, seems a paradoxical place in which to examine questions of democracy and popular participation. Yet Liberia is also the oldest republic in Africa, having become independent in 1847 after colonization by an American philanthropic organization as a refuge for "Free People of Color" from the United States. Many analysts have attributed the violent upheaval and state collapse Liberia experienced in the 1980s and 1990s to a lack of democratic institutions and long-standing patterns of autocracy, secrec
Author: Ingrid Ramberg
Publisher: Council of Europe
Keywords: violence, life, everyday, responses, learning
Published: 2004-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 9287150850
ISBN-13: 9789287150851
Author: Michael Barkun
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: violence, political, series, cass, millennialism
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1996-04-30
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 071464708X
ISBN-13: 9780714647081
As the world approaches the year 2000, many societies are experiencing an unprecedented growth in millenarian movements that anticipate an imminent and total transformation of the world. Many of these movements have been associated with violence, either as a means for producing change or as a response to confrontations with state authority. This book draws together research on this topic from political science, psychology, sociology and history in an attempt to understand the relationship between millenarian movements and episodes of violence.
Author: James Ptacek
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: violence, series, interpersonal, women, restorative, justice
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2009-11-16
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0195335481
ISBN-13: 9780195335484
Despite significant accomplishments over the past 35 years, antiviolence activists know that justice for most abused women remains elusive. Most victims do not call the police or seek help from the courts, making it crucial to identify new ways for survivors to find justice. This path-breaking book examines new justice practices for victims that are being used in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These informal, dialogue-based practices, referred to as "restorative justice," seek to decrease the role of the state in responding to crime, and increase the involvement of c
Author: Ted Robert Gurr
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: violence, peace, cooperation, history, america, crime
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1989-06-01
List price: $71.95
ISBN-10: 0803932286
ISBN-13: 9780803932289
This third edition of Violence in America is a completely new book with all 12 chapters of this volume written specifically for it. These chapters survey a wealth of new research on the long-term dynamics of murder and other crimes of violence. The contributors identify and diagnose the circumstances of recurring epidemics of violent crime that have swept the social landscape of the United States in the last 150 years, including waves of immigration, the social dislocation of war, and growing concentrations of urban poverty. They also evaluate the traits of political assassins and assess the
