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

Author/creator: Voigt, Lydia, Thornton, William E., 1946-, Harper, Dee Wood.

Call Numbers: N303.6/87

Record Identifier: 74VvEAo4aVdl

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xxv, 478 p. ; 23 cm., 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.

Publishers: Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2012.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 303.6

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