Full Description
The Causes and Consequences of Group Violence: From Bullies to Terrorists offers a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation of the causes and consequences of violence, ranging from bullying and hate crimes to revolutions, genocide, and acts of terrorism. Editors James Hawdon, John Ryan, and Mark Lucht bring together empirical investigations of these specific types of violence as well as theoretical discussions of the underlying similarities and differences among them. Focusing on both the perpetrators and targets of violence, The Causes and Consequences of Group Violencethis book is a valuable resource for sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, behavioral scientists, peace studies scholars, and psychologists.
Contents
Introduction: Working toward Understanding Group Violence, James Hawdon and John Ryan
Part 1: Perpetrators of Group Violence
Chapter 1: On the Forms and Nature of Group Violence, James Hawdon
Chapter 2: Hate Groups: From Offline to Online Social Identifications, Atte Oksanen, Pekka Räsänen, and James Hawdon
Chapter 3: Violence and Street Groups: Gangs, Groups, and Violence, David Kennedy
Chapter 4: Intergroup Contact and Genocide, Wenona Rymond-Richmond
Chapter 5: Group Violence against the State: The Hindsight Story of the Thirty-Year War in Sri Lanka, Tharindi Udalagama and Premakumara de Silva
Chapter 6: (Non)Violence and Conflict: A Theoretical Assessment of Civil Resistance and the Syrian Conflict, Jeanne Chang and Alec Clott
Chapter 7: Killing Before an Audience: Terrorism and Group Violence, Mark Juergensmeyer
Part 2: Victims of Group Violence
Chapter 8: Gender, Weight, and Inequality Associated with School Bullying, Anthony Peguero and Lindsay Kahle
Chapter 9: Victims of Hate
