Overview
- Brings together 62 articles written by famous authors from ten different countries
- Provides analyses based on socio-psychological, historical, political and legal research or with a background in socio-biology or cultural studies
- Paints a complex picture that displays an area of complicated research on questions of order, destruction and power
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (63 chapters)
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The Framework of the Handbook
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Research on Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach with a Focus on Social Sciences
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Societal Structures and Institutions: Social Conditions and State Agents
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Societal Structures and Institutions: Social Conditions and State Agents
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Groups and Collectivities: Political and Ideological Violence
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"In this unparalleled effort to survey comprehensively all areas of violence research, the editors bring together 63 articles by 80 authors. Topics covered run the gamut--war, the Holocaust, ethnic strife, domestic violence, violence against children, urban crime, aggressive driving, sports hooliganism….Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and higher.
(P. R. Sullivan, Choice, September 2004)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Handbook of Violence Research
Editors: Wilhelm Heitmeyer, John Hagan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48039-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1466-6Published: 31 December 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3980-5Published: 12 August 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48039-3Published: 31 December 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 1287
Topics: Sociology, general, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Social Sciences, general