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Subject(s)

• Violence [Browse]
• Violent crimes [Browse]
• Victims of violent crimes [Browse]
• Crime and race [Browse]
• Sex crimes [Browse]
• Violence—Psychological aspects [Browse]

Related name

• DeKeseredy, Walter S., 1959- [Browse]
• Rennison, Callie Marie [Browse]
• Hall-Sanchez, Amanda K. [Browse]

Series

Routledge international handbooks. [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Notes

Species justice and theriocide.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Credits; List of contributors; Introduction: toward a broader social scientific understanding of violence; What is violence?; Organization of the book; Notes; References; PART I: Gathering and analyzing violence data; Introduction to Part I; Notes; References; 1. Crime victimization survey research; Introduction; Victimization surveys outside the United States; Drawbacks of victimization surveys; Why do some victimization surveys produce lower estimates or rates?; Notes; References.
• 2. Mixed methods in violence studiesIntroduction; Mixed methods research: theory and practice; Promises of mixed methods research on violence; Mixed methods in existing studies of violence; Potential pitfalls for mixed methods research on violence; New directions for research; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3. Using crime surveys as tools of critical insight and progressive change; Introduction; The strengths and limitations of mainstream survey research; Using surveys to buttress the critical criminological imagination; Conclusion; Note; References; 4. Historical methods; Introduction.
• Choosing violenceQuantifying violence; Comparative histories of violence; A worrying decline in violence?; Violence not captured in official statistics; New directions and approaches in the history of crime; Conclusion; Note; References; 5. Enhancing the quality of research on understudied populations; Introduction; Issues in prioritizing, identifying, recruiting, and sampling hidden populations; Identifying, recruiting, and sampling hidden populations: what works; References; 6. The caring adult role: avoiding exploitation in youth violence ethnographies; Introduction.
• Avoiding exploitative accounts of violenceThe caring adult role; Doing emancipatory research: two strategies for ethnographers; Conclusion; Notes; References; PART II: New ways of thinking theoretically about violence; Introduction to Part II; A short note on linking theory to practice; Note; References; 7. Thinking theoretically about image-based sexual abuse: the contribution of male peer support theory; Image-based sexual abuse: definition, extent, and distribution; Male peer support theory; Conclusion; Declaration of Conflicting Interests; Funding; Notes; References.
• 8. What's place got to do with it? Explaining violence in a rural contextIntroduction; What is violence: generically speaking?; Deconstructing attempts to explain violence at rural places; Some early studies; Subculture of violence; Social capital, social development, and rural violence; Social disorganization theory; Civic community theory; A recap; Reconstructing an explanation of violence at rural places; Conclusions: theory-based prevention; Note; References; 9. Theoretical perspectives on environmental violence; Introduction; Ecosystems, landscapes and ecocide; Biodiversity and habitat.

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ISBN

• 1-351-98155-2
• 1-315-27026-9
• 1-351-98154-4

OCLC

1065413720

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