The Routledge International Handbook of Violence Studies

Walter S. DeKeseredy, Callie Marie Rennison, Amanda K. Hall-Sanchez

Routledge, Oct 30, 2018 - Social Science - 514 pages

Violence is a serious public health problem. The number of violent deaths tells only part of the story, and many more survive violence and are left with permanent physical and emotional scars. Violence also erodes communities by reducing productivity, decreasing property values, and disrupting social services.

In recent years, scholars have broadened their definitions of violence beyond the realm of interpersonal harms such as murder, armed robbery, and male-to-female physical and sexual assaults in intimate relationships, to include behaviors often ignored by the criminal justice system, such as human rights violations, racism, psychological abuse, state terrorism, environmental violations, and war. Guided by this broader definition of violence, this handbook offers state of the art research in the field and brings together international experts to discuss empirical, theoretical, and policy issues.

Contents

• Acknowledgements: 1955
• Introduction Toward a broader social scientific understanding of violence: 1970
• Mixed methods in violence studies: 1992
• Using crime surveys as tools of critical insight and progressive change: 2004
• Historical methods: 1988
• Enhancing the quality of research on understudied populations: 2002
• The caring adult role Avoiding exploitation in youth violence ethnographies: 2014
• PART II: 2015
• Whats place got to do with it? Explaining violence in a rural context: 1946
• Theoretical perspectives on environmental violence: 1979
• Gender violence and multiple oppressions: 1996
• The material reality of state violence The case of police militarization: 2009
• Theorising war: 1991
• Masculinities and school shootings: 2003

About the author

Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University, USA.

Callie Marie Rennison is a Professor at the School of Public Affairs (SPA), University of Colorado Denver, USA.

Amanda K. Hall-Sanchez is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Fairmont State University, USA.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Routledge International Handbook of Violence Studies; Routledge International Handbooks
• Editors: Walter S. DeKeseredy, Callie Marie Rennison, Amanda K. Hall-Sanchez
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Routledge, 2018
• ISBN: 1351981544, 9781351981545
• Length: 514 pages
• Subjects: Law / Criminal Law / General; Psychology / Psychotherapy / General; Psychology / Social Psychology; Social Science / Criminology; Social Science / General; Social Science / Social Work; Social Science / Sociology / General