The social reality of violence and violent crime / Henry H. Brownstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brownstein, Henry H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--United States--Public opinion.

Violence.

Violent crimes--United States--Public opinion.

Violent crimes.

Family violence--United States.

Family violence.

Public opinion.

United States.

Youth and violence--United States.

Youth and violence.

Public opinion--United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 204 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Allyn and Bacon, [2000]

Summary:

This book is written in the form of stories that individually and collectively describe violence and violent crime in America in the twentieth century. Because violence means different things to different people, this book attempts to show the many ways in which we as a society think about violence and how these perceptions have developed in our society during the twentieth century.

Weaving a personal narrative style together with official statistics, media reports, research findings, and first-hand accounts, the author illustrates the American experience and the social construction of various forms of violence. Since the language of social constructionism is often difficult to understand, this book utilizes simple explanations of how violence and violent crime are socially constructed. This book succeeds in making an abstract but important theory accessible by grounding these explanations in specific historical and biographical experiences of American society.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-195) and index.

ISBN:

0205288073

OCLC:

41035553