International Handbook of Violence Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Framework of the Handbook

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Violence: The Difficulties of a Systematic International Review

      • Wilhelm Heitmeyer, John Hagan

      Pages 3-11

   3. The Concept of Violence

      • Peter Imbusch

      Pages 13-39

   4. The Long-Term Development of Violence: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Approaches to Interpretation

      • Manuel Eisner

      Pages 41-59

3. Research on Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach with a Focus on Social Sciences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Societal Structures and Institutions: Social Conditions and State Agents

      1. Poverty and Violence

         • Robert D. Crutchfield, Tim Wadsworth

         Pages 67-82

      2. Ethnic Segregation and Violence

         • James F. Short Jr.

         Pages 83-96

      3. A Comparative Examination of Gender Perspectives on Violence

         • Carol Hagemann-White

         Pages 97-117

   3. Societal Structures and Institutions: Social Conditions and State Agents

      1. Violence and the Rise of the State

         • Michael Hanagan

         Pages 121-137

      2. Holocaust

         • Peter Longerich

         Pages 139-169

      3. Violence within the Military

         • Gerhard Kümmel, Paul Klein

         Pages 171-187

      4. Violence in Prisons/Torture

         • Ronald D. Crelinsten

         Pages 189-205

      5. Violence and the Police

         • Jean-Paul Brodeur

         Pages 207-224

   4. Groups and Collectivities: Political and Ideological Violence

      1. Ethnopolitical Conflict and Separatist Violence

         • Ted Robert Gurr, Anne Pitsch

         Pages 227-245

      2. Ethnic Violence

         • Andreas Wimmer, Conrad Schetter

         Pages 247-260

      3. The Socio-Anthropological Interpretation of Violence

         • Georg Elwert

         Pages 261-290

      4. Civil Wars

         • Peter Waldmann

         Pages 291-308

      5. Terrorism

         • Fernando Reinares

         Pages 309-321

      6. Violence from Religious Groups

         • Jon Pahl

         Pages 323-338

An international manual is like a world cruise: a once-in-a-lifetime experience. All the more reason to consider carefully whether it is necessary. This can hardly be the case if previous research in the selected field has already been the subject of an earlier review-or even several competing surveys. On the other hand, more thorough study is necessary if the intensity and scope of research are increasing without comprehensive assessments. That was the situation in Western societies when work began on this project in the summer of 1998. It was then, too, that the challenges emerged: any manual, espe­ cially an international one, is a very special type of text, which is anything but routine. It calls for a special effort: the "state of the art" has to be documented for selected subject areas, and its presentation made as compelling as possible. The editors were delighted, therefore, by the cooperation and commitment shown by the eighty-one contributors from ten countries who were recruited to write on the sixty-two different topics, by the con­ structive way in which any requests for changes were dealt with, and by the patient re­ sponse to our many queries. This volume is the result of a long process. It began with the first drafts outlining the structure of the work, which were submitted to various distinguished colleagues. Friedheim Neidhardt of Berlin, Gertrud Nunner-Winkler of Munich, and Roland Eckert of Trier, to name only a few, supplied valuable comments at this stage.  

• Crime
• Criminal Violence
• Criminology
• Gang
• Hate Crime
• Ideologie
• Institution
• Nation
• Violence
• police
• politics
• public opinion

From the reviews:

"In this unparalleled effort to survey comprehensively all areas of violence research, the editors bring together 63 articles by 80 authors. Topics covered run the gamut--war, the Holocaust, ethnic strife, domestic violence, violence against children, urban crime, aggressive driving, sports hooliganism….Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and higher.
(P. R. Sullivan, Choice, September 2004)

  

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