pathways to understanding Barak, Gregg. creator text bibliography cau Thousand Oaks Sage Publications c2003 2003 monographic eng

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xvii, 341 p. ill. 26 cm. 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 -- Types of violence. 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: Suicide ; Class, ethnicity, and gender violence ; Domestic violence ; Youth violence ; Gun violence ; Sexual violence ; Violence against the elderly ; Workplace violence ; Corporate, hate, and state violence -- American violence in comparative perspective -- A reciprocal approach to studying violence -- Interpersonal violence: Homicide ; Juvenile victimization ; Physical and sexual child abuse ; Rape ; Stalking -- Institutional violence: Family violence ; Childhood maltreatment ; School violence ; Gang violence ; Police and penal violence -- Structural violence: Postcolonial violence ; Corporate violence ; Underclass violence ; Terrorist violence ; Institutional-structural violence -- Pathways to violence. Explanations of violence. Ad hoc explanations : general and family violence -- Life-course models of human behavior : causation, time, and violence: Terrie Moffitt ; Robert Sampson and John Laub ; The social development model -- On the reciprocity of violent and nonviolent pathways: A violence and nonviolence continuum ; Properties of violence -- A reciprocal theory of violence: A narrative proof of reciprocal violence ; Killer boys : a case of lost childhood ; Suicidal terrorists : a case of secular despair ; Genocidal exterminators : a case of cultural denial -- Media and violence. Mass media, Columbine, and the Middle East -- America's fascination with mediated violence -- Violence and media context : the direct and indirect effects: Televised violence ; Sexually violent media -- Audience reception of mediated violence -- Mass media : production, distortion, and consumption: Violent content and its distortions ; Violence and cinema in postmodernism -- Sexuality and violence. Philosophizing about sex and sexuality -- Nature, nurture, and human evolution -- On aggression and nonaggression: A relational model of aggression ; An evolutionary perspective on sexual aggression -- Marketing the sexualities of difference and hierarchy: Bodies and sexualities -- Sexual difference, gender identity, and violence: Nonlethal relationship violence : heterosexual battering ; Lethal violence : familiar and unfamiliar homicide ; Gangs and violence-related behavior ; Child sex abusers ; Serial murderers -- Pathways to nonviolence. Recovering from violence. A reciprocal approach to violence recovery -- Interpersonal recovery : scenarios of victim recovery: Case 8.1: a sexual assault and attempted murder victim ; Case 8.2: a father who lost his 18-year-old son to murder ; Case 8.3: insults, outcasts, and intolerance toward a non-Christian radical student ; Case 8.4: the parents of a killed daughter meet the mother of the accused killer -- Perpetrators -- Bystanders -- Institutional recovery -- Structural recovery: Alternative forms of structural recovery ; Six basic principles -- Gregg Barak. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Violence United States Nonviolence United States HN90.V5 B37 2003 303.6 B224v 076192695X (Cloth) 0761926968 (Paper) 2002155653 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy036/2002155653.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy036/2002155653.html DLC 021212 20180319094433.0 268698