Table of Contents

1. Violence: The Difficulties of a Systematic International Review.- 2. The Concept of Violence.- 3. The Long-Term Development of Violence: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Approaches to Interpretation.- 1.1.1 Poverty and Violence.- 1.1.2 Ethnic Segregation and Violence.- 1.1.3 A Comparative Examination of Gender Perspectives on Violence.- 1.2.1 Violence and the Rise of the State.- 1.2.2 Holocaust.- 1.2.3 Violence within the Military.- 1.2.4 Violence in Prisons/Torture.- 1.2.5 Violence and the Police.- 2.1 Ethnopolitical Conflict and Separatist Violence.- 2.2 Ethnic Violence.- 2.3 The Socio-Anthropological Interpretation of Violence.- 2.4 Civil Wars.- 2.5 Terrorism.- 2.6 Violence from Religious Groups.- 2.7 Vigilantism.- 2.8 Pogroms.- 2.9 Violence and New Social Movements.- 2.10 Violence and the New Left.- 2.11 Right-Wing Extremist Violence.- 2.12 Large-Scale Violence as Contentious Politics.- 3.1.1 The Social Psychology of Aggression and Violence.- 3.1.2 Emotions and Aggressiveness.- 3.1.3 Learning of Aggression in the Home and the Peer Group.- 3.1.4 Violence and the Media.- 3.1.5 Patterns and Explanations of Direct Physical and Indirect Nonphysical Aggression in Childhood.- 3.2.1 Evolutionary Psychology of Lethal Interpersonal Violence.- 3.2.2 The Nature-Nurture Problem in Violence.- 3.3.1 Sociological Approaches to Individual Violence and Their Empirical Evaluation.- 3.3.2 Youth Violence and Guns.- 3.3.3 Organized Crime and Violence.- 3.3.4 Understanding Cross-National Variation in Criminal Violence.- 4.1 Violence against Children.- 4.2 Violence in Intimate Relationships.- 4.3 Suicide.- 4.4 Violence against the Socially Expendable.- 4.5 Violence against Ethnic and Religious Minorities.- 4.6 Hate Crimes Directed at Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Victims.- 4.7 Trauma and Violence in Children and Adolescents: A Developmental Perspective.- 5.1.1 Violence in the Family.- 5.1.2 Violence in School.- 5.1.3 Work-Related Violence.- 5.1.4 Violence and Sport.- 5.2.1 Violence on the Roads.- 5.2.2 Juvenile and Urban Violence.- 6.1.1 Political Cultural Studies and Violence.- 6.1.2 The Role of Elites in Legitimizing Violence.- 6.1.3 Violence in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy.- 6.1.4 Sacrifice and Holy War: A Study of Religion and Violence.- 6.1.5 Violence and the Glorification of Violence in the Literature of the Twentieth Century.- 6.2.1 The State Monopoly of Force.- 6.2.2 The Monopoly of Legitimate Violence and Criminal Policy.- 6.2.3 Freedom to Demonstrate and the Use of Force: Criminal Law as a Threat to Basic Political Rights.- 6.2.4 The Right to Resist.- 6.2.5 Individual Violence Justification Strategies.- 7.1 Fear of Violent Crime.- 7.2 Public Opinion and Violence.- 7.3 Groups, Gangs and Violence.- 7.4 Escalation and De-Escalation of Social Conflicts: The Road to Violence.- 1. Potentials and Limits of Qualitative Methods for Research on Violence.- 2. Strategies and Problems in Quantitative Research on Aggression and Violence.- IV. SubjectIndex.- V. Name Index.- VI. The Authors.

Reviews

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)