Institutional violence.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curtin, Deane.

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Series:

Value inquiry book series ; v. 88.

Value inquiry book series ; v. 88

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Moral and ethical aspects.

Violence.

Physical Description:

xv, 413 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Atlanta : Rodopi, 1999.

Summary:

This book examines a wide range of human problems that are institutionalized forms of violence, including poverty, parenting, sexism, and racism. Since violence is as complex as the human beings who resort to it, its institutionalized forms pervade our relational lives. These philosophical studies explicate violence in the hope that such clarification will help us devise less violent ways of living together.

Philosophy of Peace (POP), in conjunction with Concerned Philosophers for Peace, explores sociopolitical and ethical perspectives on modern warfare, peacemaking, and conflict resolution, including the many forms of domestic and global violence, such as sexism, racism, and classism.

Contents:

Section I Cultural Forms of Violence 1

1 Is Poverty Violence? / Steven Lee 5

2 Linguistic Violence / William C. Gay 13

3 Compromised Childhoods and Social Violence / Natalie Dandekar 35

4 The Death Penalty as a Peace Issue / Stephen Nathanson 53

5 Mothers in Prison: Institutional Violence, Human Values, and Healing / Mar Peter-Raoul, Sherrie Apple 61

6 Work and Peacemaking / Robert Sessions 87

Section II International Dimensions of Institutional Violence 101

7 Fundamentalism, Oppression, and Violence / Robert Litke 105

8 Ideological Intolerance: Causes, Consequences, and Alternatives / Jerald Richards 113

9 Genocide and Moral Philosophy / Judith L. Presler 129

10 International Intervention: Shell in Nigeria / Eddy Souffrant 149

Section III Feminism and Institutional Violence 161

11 The Challenge of Systemic Oppression: The Dangerous Divorce of Civil and Domestic Spheres / Sally J. Scholz 165

12 Feminist Justice and Sexual Harassment / James P. Sterba 177

13 Feminism and Firearms / Amy Ihlan 185

Section IV Racism and Systemic Prejudice 193

14 Devaluing Others to Enhance Our Self-Esteem: A Moral Phenomenology of Racism / Laura Duhan Kaplan 197

15 Context and Color-Confrontation: Cress Theory and the Necessity of Racism / Paul C. Taylor 205

16 The Limits of Tolerance / Paula J. Smithka 215

17 Racism and Prejudice / Larry Udell 225

18 Institutional Violence as Systemic Evil / Robert Ginsberg 233

Section V Environmental Violence 249

19 Ecofeminism and the Dismantling of Institutional Violence / Michael Allen Fox 253

20 Treading on Harrowed Ground: The Violence of Agriculture / Judith A. Boss 263

Section VI Violence and the Military 279

21 Managing Violence under Military Professionalization / John Kultgen 283

22 The Armed Forces Caught in a Web: Both Victims and Perpetrators of Violence / Gail M. Presbey 303

23 Ethical Education in the Military: Controlling the Institution of Violence / David E. Johnson 317

Section VII Thinking Nonviolently 327

24 Power, Public Authority, and Nonviolence / Joseph C. Kunkel 331

25 A World Without Enemies (Bush's Brush with Morality) / Ron Hirschbein 343

26 Epistemological Violence / Andrew Norman 353

27 A Buddhist Response to Institutional Violence / Glen T. Martin 363.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

9042005084

9042004983

OCLC:

43425580