Violence: The Enduring Problem - Softcover

Alvarez, Alexander C.; Bachman, Ronet D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483300307 ISBN 13: 9781483300306

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2013

Synopsis

Violence: The Enduring Problem explores a number of different types of both individual and collective violent acts and examines the linkages, behaviors, ideas, perceptions, and justifications that connect these different types of violence. Inspired generally by the fear of the pervasive violence in the world, the text also addresses legislative, social, and political efforts to curb violent behavior.  This book differs from many of the books on violence in that it incorporates a broad interdisciplinary approach to analyzing the patterns and correlates of violence using the most up-to-date research and theories and presents them in a style intended to be accessible to a wide audience of readers.

2. In Focus boxes provide personal narratives, case studies and related information to enhance the chapter coverage.

3. Broad coverage addresses legislative, social, and political efforts to curb violent behavior

4. Violence: An Enduring Problem examines both individual and collective forms of violence and, unlike other texts on the subject, illustrates the linkages between these two general types of violent acts.

5. The  interdisciplinary approach that draws from a number of different disciplines including criminology and criminal justice, sociology, psychology, political science, and public health.

New To This Edition

· Inclusion of new developments in the field of violence studies

· Less emphasis on esoteric research and abstract policy studies.

· Updated throughout with new data and examples

· Increased number of end of chapter questions.

· Instructor Resources are new to this edition.

About this title

About the Authors

Alex Alvarez, PhD, is a professor in the department of criminology and criminal justice at

Northern Arizona University. From 2001 until 2003, he was the founding director of the

Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values.

In 2017–2018, he served as the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Holocaust and

Genocide Studies at Stockton University. His first book, Governments, Citizens, and Genocide,

was published by Indiana University Press in 2001. His other books include Murder American

Style (2002), Genocidal Crimes (2009), Native America and the Question of Genocide (2014), and

Unsteady Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide (2017). He has also served as an editor

for the journal Violence and Victims, was a founding coeditor of the journal Genocide Studies

and Prevention, and is an editor for Genocide Studies International. He has been invited to speak

and present his research across North America and Europe.

Ronet D. Bachman, PhD, worked as a statistician at the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S.

Department of Justice, before going back to an academic career; she is now a professor in the

Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She is coauthor

of Statistical Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice and coeditor of Explaining Criminals

and Crime: Essays in Contemporary Criminal Theory. In addition, she is the author of Death and

Violence on the Reservation and coauthor of Stress, Culture, and Aggression; Murder American

Style; and Violence: The Enduring Problem, along with numerous articles and papers that examine

the epidemiology and etiology of violence, with particular emphasis on women, the elderly,

and minority populations as well as research examining desistance from crime. Her most recent

federally funded research was a mixed-methods study that examined the long-term desistance

trajectories of criminal justice involved drug-involved individuals who have been followed with

both quantitative and interview data for nearly thirty years. Her current state-funded research is

assessing the needs of violent crime victims, especially those whose voices are rarely heard such

as loved ones of homicide victims.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1483300307
• ISBN 13: 9781483300306
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368