Violence : do we know it when we see it? : a reader / edited by Dee Wood Harper, Lydia Voigt, William E. Thornton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harper, Dee Wood.

Contributor:

Voigt, Lydia.

Thornton, William E., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Violence--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xxv, 478 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2012]

Summary:

The answer to this question posed by social scientists at Loyala University New Orleans is that we do not always know where to look for or recognize violence when we see it. Treating violence as a broad concept, 22 analyses and empirical studies address areas including the social/media construction of gendered violence and urban violence; emergence of "corrosive communities" and human rights violations in natural disasters (e.g., Hurricane Katrina); Homeland Security responses to terrorism; subculture glorification of violence; racial discrimination in relation to the death penalty; corporate violence against the environment; and pedophilia in the Catholic Church. Violence risk prediction in offenders and violence prevention are also discussed. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Violence : do we know it when we see it?

Violence : definition, spheres, and principles / Peter Iadicola

Violence against women : colliding realities / Patricia Easteal

Intimate partner homicide-suicide : a case of gendered violence / Dee Wood Harper and Lydia Voigt

Predicting the risk of violence : the case for developmentally disabled / Bill Lindsay

Violence : where do we look for it?

Disasters, the emergence of corrosive communities and violence / Kelly Frailing

Southern violence: a contemporary overview / Matthew R. Lee and Graham C. Ousey

"You can't do crack on credit" : drug and retaliatory murder / Jana J. Levitov and Dee Wood Harper

As terrifying as terror is

are we safer? : a survey of the state of 'Homeland Security' / Bethany L. Brown

Violence : what do we know?

News construction of urban violence : fear and the making of the prototypical criminal / Stephen F. Ostertag

Victim-blame and the media : the portrayal of femicide in newspaper stories / Rae Taylor

The social construction of suicide, suicide rates, and the suicidal act / Hugh P. Whitt, Jay Corzine and Lin Huff-Corzine

Rap and the glorification of guns and violence in inner city youth culture / Ashish Patel and James D. Wright

Getting away with murder : a review of arrest clearances / Marc Riedel

Violence : who do we believe?

War : taxonomy, mythology, reality / John Mosier

Guantanamo continued / Johanna Kalb

Racial discrimination and the death penalty in the united states / Robert M. Bohm

Corporate violence : the epa's criminalization and control of environmental destruction / Leo G. Barrile and Neal Slone

Pedophilia and the u. s. catholic church : victimization and its effects / Brenda K. Vollman

Is non-violence possible? (is the road to peace paved with violence ?)

Beyond the crime narrative : communities build partnerships to reduce violence / Pamela J. Jenkins

Repairing harm through kith and kin / Loraine Gelsthorpe

Post hurricane Katrina corruption and human rights violations / Patrick D. Walsh, William E. Thornton and Lydia Voigt

Is community peace possible? / Reba Parker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594608810

1594608814

OCLC:

760068737