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International Handbook of Violence Research

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Editors:
  1. Wilhelm Heitmeyer
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  2. John Hagan
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  • Brings together 62 articles written by famous authors from ten different countries
  • Provides analyses based on socio-psychological, historical, political and legal research or with a background in socio-biology or cultural studies
  • Paints a complex picture that displays an area of complicated research on questions of order, destruction and power
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (63 chapters)

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

    1. Groups and Collectivities: Political and Ideological Violence

      1. Vigilantism
        • David Kowalewski
        Pages 339-349
      2. Pogroms
        • Werner Bergmann
        Pages 351-367
      3. Violence and New Social Movements
        • Dieter Rucht
        Pages 369-382
      4. Violence and the New Left
        • Donatella della Porta
        Pages 383-398
      5. Right-Wing Extremist Violence
        • Wilhelm Heitmeyer
        Pages 399-436
      6. Large-Scale Violence as Contentious Politics
        • Charles Tilly
        Pages 437-454

    2. Violent Individuals: Perpetrators and Motives

      1. The Social Psychology of Aggression and Violence
        • James T. Tedeschi
        Pages 459-478
      2. Emotions and Aggressiveness
        • Roy F. Baumeister, Brad J. Bushman
        Pages 479-493
      3. Learning of Aggression in the Home and the Peer Group
        • Ernest V. E. Hodges, Noel A. Card, Jenny Isaacs
        Pages 495-509
      4. Violence and the Media
        • Helmut Lukesch
        Pages 511-541
      5. Patterns and Explanations of Direct Physical and Indirect Nonphysical Aggression in Childhood
        • Holly Foster, John Hagan
        Pages 543-565

    3. Violent Individuals: Perpetrators and Motives

      1. Evolutionary Psychology of Lethal Interpersonal Violence
        • Martin Daly, Margo Wilson
        Pages 569-588
      2. The Nature-Nurture Problem in Violence
        • Laura Baker
        Pages 589-607

    4. Violent Individuals: Perpetrators and Motives

      1. Sociological Approaches to Individual Violence and Their Empirical Evaluation
        • Günter Albrecht
        Pages 611-656
      2. Youth Violence and Guns
        • Alfred Blumstein
        Pages 657-677
      3. Organized Crime and Violence
        • Dick Hobbs
        Pages 679-699
      4. Understanding Cross-National Variation in Criminal Violence
        • Steven Messner
        Pages 701-716

    5. Victims of Violence: Individuals and Groups

      1. Violence against Children
        • James Garbarino, Catherine P. Bradshaw
        Pages 719-735
      2. Violence in Intimate Relationships
        • Russell P. Dobash, R. Emerson Dobash
        Pages 737-752
      3. Suicide
        • David Lester
        Pages 753-765
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About this book

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.  

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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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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: International Handbook of Violence Research

  • Editors: Wilhelm Heitmeyer, John Hagan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48039-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1466-6Published: 31 December 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3980-5Published: 12 August 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48039-3Published: 31 December 2003

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 1287

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Social Sciences, general

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