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"Gregg Barak′s Violence and Nonviolence is a thoughtful, comprehensive examination of violence in the United States. Structurally and conceptually this book works. Barak addresses violence in an interdisciplinary way, addressing history, psychology, biology, cultural studies, and sociology. Moreover, Barak does an excellent job of discussing the intersection of race, class, and gender and those relationships with violence."

-- Heather Melton, University of Utah

"Clearly, the strength of this book is its comprehensive and reciprocal approach. I found this to be an enjoyable and provocative book... that treats the topic holistically and offers a vision for overcoming current patterns of violence. I am convinced that this is an important work that will ultimately be well-received by undergraduates, graduate students, violence specialists, and general readers."

-- Mathew T. Lee, University of Akron

"I think that the strengths of this book are twofold: Barak′s approach disaggregates violence into interpersonal, institutional, and structural violence which is very important yet rarely done; the latter part of the book explores the pathways to nonviolence, an underrepresented area in the study of violence."

--Charis Kubrin/Sociology, George Washington University

"I have devoted close to 20 years studying and teaching about violence and I must say that this is a comprehensive book....I strongly believe that Barak has done an outstanding review of the extant literature and touches upon key issues of central concern to those of us who are social scientific experts on violence."

--Walter Dekeseredy, Ohio University

Violence and Nonviolence: Pathways to Understanding is the first book to provide an integrative, systematic approach to the study of violence and nonviolence in one volume. Eminent scholar and award-winning author Gregg Barak examines virtually all forms of violence--from verbal abuse to genocide--and treats all of these expressions of violence as interpersonal, institutional, and structural occurrences. In the context of recovery and nonviolence, Barak addresses peace and conflict studies, legal rights, social justice, and various nonviolent movements. Employing an interdisciplinary framework, Barak emphasizes the importance of culture, media, sexuality, gender, and social structure in developing a comprehensive theory of these two separate, but inseparable phenomena.

This innovative and accessible volume includes

Figures, tables, and illustrations that reinforce important concepts and relationships Introduces a new, original theory of reciprocal violence and nonviolence Numerous case studies on violence and recovery throughout the book Chapter summaries and review questions to aid student comprehension Models of nonviolence such as "mutuality," "altruistic humanism," "positive peacemaking," and "resiliency"

Designed to be a core text for graduate and undergraduate courses on violence in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, and social work departments, Violence and Nonviolence is also an outstanding supplementary text for violence against women and criminal behavior courses. This book will transform the way students and readers think about violence, nonviolence, and the reciprocal relationship between the two.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction - Secrets of Violence and Nonviolence
• Decreasing Violence and Increasing Nonviolence
• Feelings and Structures
• Private and Public Shame
• A Germ Theory of Violence and Nonviolence
• Violent and Nonviolent Rhetoric, Youth at Risk, and Implications for Peacemaking
• Violence Against Youth Is More Important Than Violence by Youth
• Organization of the Book
• References
• Part I Types of Violence
• Chapter 1 Violence in Perspective
• Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Violence: An Alternative Perspective
• Violence as an Integral Part of American Life
• American Violence in Historical Perspective
• American Violence in Contemporary Perspective
• American Violence in Comparative Perspective
• A Reciprocal Approach to Studying Violence
• Summary
• References
• Review Questions
• Chapter 2 Interpersonal Violence
• Box 2.1 Harrassment and Silence
• Homicide
• Box 2.2 Serial Killer
• Box 2.3 Retaliatory Bombing
• Box 2.4 Homosexual Panic Leading to Murder
• Box 2.5 Rape and Homicide
• Box 2.6 Situated Transactions
• Box 2.7 Altruisitic Killings
• Box 2.8 Motherhood and Mental Illness
• Juvenile Victimization
• Box 2.9 Homosexual Juvenile Homicide
• Box 2.10 College Murder
• Box 2.11 High School Homicide
• Box 2.12 The Smiling Gunman
• Physical and Sexual Child Abuse
• Box 2.13 Rapist Returns
• Rape
• Box 2.14 Elder Rape and Murder
• Stalking
• Summary
• References
• Review Questions
• Chapter 3 Institutional Violence
• Box 3.1 Rampage in Central Park
• Box 3.2 The Hamburg Riot, 1876 Supremacy (2000)
• Box 3.3 The Birmingham Church Bombing, 1963
• Family Violence
• Box 3.4 "Silence Ending About Abuse in Gay Relationships"
• Childhood Maltreatment
• School Violence
• Box 3.5 Youth Sports and Violence
• Gang Violence
• Box 3.6 Do or Die
• Police and Penal Violence
• Box 3.7 Police Torture
• Box 3.8 The Rampart Scandal
• Box 3.9 New Jersey Turnpike Shootings
• Box 3.10 Private Youth Prisons
• Box 3.11 Danger on Death Row
• Summary
• References
• Review Questions
• Chapter 4 Structural Violence
• Box 4.1 Child Slave Labor
• Postcolonial Violence
• Box 4.2 Genocide in the Americas
• Corporate Violence
• Box 4.3 The Tobacco Industry
• Box 4.4 The ValuJet Crash
• Box 4.5 The Auto Industry
• Underclass Violence
• Box 4.6 Hate Crimes Against the Homeless
• Terrorist Violence
• Institutional-Structural Violence
• Box 4.7 The War on Kids
• Summary
• References
• Review Questions
• Part II Pathways to Violence
• Chapter 5 Explanations of Violence
• Ad Hoc Explanations: General and Family Violence
• Life-Course Models of Human Behavior: Causation, Time, and Violence
• On the Reciprocity of Violent and Nonviolent Pathways
• A Reciprocal Theory of Violence
• Summary
• References
• Review Questions
• Chapter 6 Media and Violence
• Mass Media, Columbine, and the Middle East
• Box 6.1 A Dialogue on Media and Violence
• Box 6.2 Tania Modleski's Tale
• America's Fascination With Mediated Violence
• Violence and Media Context: The Direct and Indirect Effects
• Mass Media: Production, Distortion, and Consumption
• Summary
• References
• Review Questions
• Chapter 7 Sexuality and Violence
• Philosophizing About Sexuality
• Nature, Nurture, and Human Evolution
• On Aggression and Nonaggression
• Marking the Sexualities of Difference and Hierarchy
• Box 7.1 The Dialectics of Sexuality and the New Pornography
• Box 7.2 Sexuality, Androgyny, and Sadomasochism
• Sexual Difference, Gender Identity, and Violence
• Summary
• References
• Review Questions
• Part III Pathways to Nonviolence
• Chapter 8 Recovering From Violence
• A Reciprocal Approach to Violence Recovery
• Box 8.1 Battered Women, Welfare, Poverty, Reciprocal Violence, and Recovery
• Interpersonal Recovery
• Institutional Recovery
• Box 8.2 Films, Recovery, and Vigilantism
• Structural Recovery
• Box 8.3 Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Energy, and Recovery
• Summary
• References
• Review Questions
• Chapter 9 Models of Nonviolence
• On the Paradigms of Adversarialism and Mutualism
• A Brief History of Nonviolent Struggle (1900-2000)
• Models of Nonviolence
• Positive Peacemaking
• Summary
• References
• Review Questions
• Chapter 10 Policies of Nonviolence
• A Summary Review of Victimization and the Pathways to Violence
• A Review and Critique of the Adversarial War on Violence
• Mutualism and the Struggle for Nonviolence
• Nonviolent Policies That Prevent Antisocial Pathways to Violence
• Nonviolent Policies That Build Pathways to Positive Peace, Human Rights, and Social Justice
• Transformative Justice and Pathways to Violence and Nonviolence
• References
• Review Questions
• Index
• About the Author

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Gregg Barak is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and former Department Head of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University