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This comprehensive Research Handbook examines the various forms of violence that occur within and across societies. It explores the multiple psychological, sociological, and environmental causes underlying violence as well as the nature of its distribution across different social groups, geographical areas and time periods.
Leading experts synthesize existing literature on violent crime from a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective, outlining the risk factors linked to the onset and persistence of violent behaviour. They identify the victimization of vulnerable subpopulations, such as sexual and gender diverse individuals, indigenous communities and older adults. With detailed case studies including firearm violence in the United States, emerging forms of cyberviolence and cyberhate and an analysis of the global use of capital punishment, this Research Handbook illustrates the multiple contexts in which violence occurs. It discusses the best practices for the intervention and prevention of violence in and across societies and critically investigates institutional responses to the issue.
Students and scholars of criminology, social policy, violent crime and responses to violence will greatly benefit from this informative Research Handbook. It is also an essential resource for practitioners and policymakers who are seeking effective solutions to reduce and prevent violence.
Contents
Contents
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Violent crime and society: An overview 2
Wendy C. Regoeczi and Terance D. Miethe
2 Data sources for studying violence over place and time 13
Terance D. Miethe, Christopher A. Forepaugh and Timothy C. Hart
PART II COLLECTIVE FORMS OF VIOLENCE
3 The symphony of disorder: The anatomy of crowd violence and future challenges 34
Tom van Ham
4 Bias violence 48
Jeff Gruenewald, Brynn Schuetter and Taylor June
5 Memorializing war crimes and how we remember to forget: The Vietnam War, collective memory and America's forever wars 63
John Hagan and Joachim J. Savelsberg
6 Corporate violence 84
Jana Macfarlane Horn and Steve Tombs
PART III VIOLENCE AGAINST VULNERABLE SUBPOPULATIONS IN SOCIETY
7 Juvenile violence 100
Kathleen M. Heide
8 Violence against older adults: Elder abuse and beyond 122
Lynn A. Addington
9 Intimate partner violence 135
Magaly L. García-Senlle and Manuel Martín-Fernándex
10 Child-parent violence 155
Hannah Sedlacek
11 Sexual violence 170
Patrick Lussier, Elisabeth St-Pierre and Nadine Deslauriers-Varin
12 Human trafficking and violent crime: Understanding the extent, drivers, consequences and how to respond 189
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13 Violence against sexual and gender diverse people 210
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14 Violence against Indigenous people 224
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PART IV HIGH PROFILE FORMS OF VIOLENT CRIME
15 Firearm violence in the United States 243
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16 Understanding mass murder: Patterns, causes, consequences and pathways forward 257
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17 Serial murder 273
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18 Understanding gang violence: Extent, causes, consequences and solutions 286
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19 School violence 301
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PART V Violence within and across places
20 Prison violence: Prevalence, correlates and consequences 318
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21 College student victimization: Examining prevalence, explaining risk and protective correlates and describing consequences and prevention efforts 337
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22 Neighborhoods and violent crime 364
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23 Social institutions, anomie and violence 382
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PART VI VIOLENCE ACROSS SOCIETY
24 Robbery 396
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25 Carjacking: An examination of trends, patterns and problems 414
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26 Exploring the impact of media violence 434
Kelsey Westbury
27 Ctrl+Alt+Aggression: Exploring the relationship between video games and violence 458
Sophia Shaiman and Christina Plakas
28 I did it for the lulz: The fun of cyberhate 462
Matthew Costello and James Hawdon
29 Violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international perspective 481
Ernesto Lopez
30 The investigation and solvability of violent crime 494
Fiona Brookman and Rebecca Nicholls
PART VII INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES TO VIOLENT CRIME
31 Police use of force: Theory, practice and research 513
Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos and Geoffrey P. Alpert
32 Violence against police: What we know and need to know 529
P. Trey Bussey, Justin Nix and Michael Sierra-Arévalo
33 Police initiatives for deterring and preventing violence 546
Anthony A. Braga and Lisa M. Barao
34 Alchemizing violent and toxic prisons into safe and healthy campuses: A violence prevention blueprint 560
Nancy Wolff, Joseph O'Connor and Summer Sprofera
35 State sanctioned violence: A global perspective on the use of capital punishment 576
Talia Roitberg Harmon, David B. Taylor and Chelsea Henning
36 Career violent offending: An aspired, assigned or accidental career? 598
Adrienne Peters, Amanda Champion and Raymond Corrado
37 Triggers of brutality: Unraveling the dialectics of extreme violence through an epidemiological criminology lens 622
Timothy A. Akers, William G. Hervey and Tina Billington-Hughes
