| Description |
1 online resource |
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Routledge studies in crime and society |
| Summary |
This book considers how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined, and explored by social researchers and thinkers. It does not provide a final answer to the question of what violence is or how it should be explained (or prevented), and instead offers a variety of useful ways of thinking about and theorising the phenomenon, mainly from a sociological standpoint. Itoutlines four ways of understanding violence: Violence as situation: the tension that exists between category-driven and situational explanations. Violence as speciality: the study of particularly violent actors, and how they may be understood by reference to childhood histories, technologies, institutions,culture, class,and gender. Violence as politics: political violence and violent politics. Violence as storytelling: representations of violence from a narrative perspective. Concluding with reflections on possible convergences between the four approaches and new directions for research, this book offers a unique and experimental approach to discussing and reconstructing the concept of violence. It is essential reading for criminologists, sociologists, and philosophers alike |
| Notes |
David Ws̃terfors is Professor of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden |
| Subject |
Violence -- Social aspects
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Violence -- Political aspects
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Crime.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
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Crime.
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Violence -- Political aspects.
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Violence -- Social aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003263579 |
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1003263577 |
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1000623998 |
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9781000624069 |
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1000624064 |
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9781000623994 |
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