Warriors and Peacemakers : How Third Parties Shape Violence / Mark Cooney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooney, Mark, 1955-

Contributor:

Cooney, Mark, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Third parties (Law).

Homicide.

Interpersonal conflict.

Violence.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why do some conflicts escalate into violence while others dissipate harmlessly? Under what circumstances will people kill, and why? While homicide has been viewed largely in the pathological terms of "crime" and "deviance," violence, Mark Cooney contends, is a naturally-occurring form of conflict found throughout history and across cultures under certain social conditions. Cooney has analyzed the social control of homicide within and across over 30 societies and interviewed several dozens of prisoners incarcerated for murder or manslaughter, as well as members of their families. Violence such as homicide can only be understood, he argues, by transcending the traditional focus on the social characteristics of the killer and victims, and by looking at the role played by family members, friends, neighbors, onlookers, police officers, and judges. These third parties can be a source of peace or violence, depending on how they are configured in particular cases. Violence flourishes, Cooney demonstrates, when authority is either very strong or very weak and when third-party ties are strong and boundaries between groups sharply defined. Drawing on recent theory in the lively new sociological speciality of conflict management, Mark Cooney has culled a vast array of evidence from modern and preindustrial societies to provide us with the first general sociological analysis of human violence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Violence as Morality

Third Parties

Black's Theoretical Paradigm

Four Foci

Status Patterns in Criminal Homicide

Elite Violence

Third-Party Social Status

Violence in Stateless Societies

Informal Settlement

Black's Theory of Partisanship

Feuding without End: Close and Distant Group Ties

Homicide without Feuding: Close and Distant Individual Ties

The Dilemma of Violence: Cross-Cutting Ties

Peaceful Indifference: Distant Individual Ties

Classical Honor

Modern Honor

Tie Stability

Statelessness

Researching Violence

Reducing Violence

Explaining Violence

Appendix A. Moralistic Homicide

Appendix B. The Virginia Study

Appendix C. The Cross-Cultural Study

Notes

References

Author Index

Subject Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-2367-5

0-585-48028-1

OCLC:

784884449