Research Handbook on Violent Crime and Society
Edited by Wendy C. Regoeczi () and
Terance D. Miethe ()
in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing
Abstract:
This comprehensive 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.
Keywords: Types Of Violence; Offender/Victim Profiles; Cross-National Patterns; Data Sources; Theories Of Violence; Violence Prevention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035317851
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Chapters in this book:
- Ch 1 Violent crime and society: An overview
- Wendy C. Regoeczi and Terance D. Miethe
- Ch 2 Data sources for studying violence over place and time
- Terance D. Miethe, Christopher A. Forepaugh and Timothy C. Hart
- Ch 3 The symphony of disorder
- Tom van Ham
- Ch 4 Bias violence
- Jeff Gruenewald, Brynn Schuetter and Taylor June
- Ch 5 Memorializing war crimes and how we remember to forget
- John Hagan and Joachim J. Savelsberg
- Ch 6 Corporate violence
- Jana Macfarlane Horn and Steve Tombs
- Ch 7 Juvenile violence
- Kathleen M. Heide
- Ch 8 Violence against older adults
- Lynn A. Addington
- Ch 9 Intimate partner violence
- Magaly L. García-Senlle and Manuel Martín-Fernández
- Ch 10 Child-parent violence
- Hannah Sedlacek
- Ch 11 Sexual violence
- Patrick Lussier, Elisabeth St-Pierre and Nadine Deslauriers-Varin
- Ch 12 Human trafficking and violent crime
- Brittany Quy, Abigail Munroe and Katharine Bryant
- Ch 13 Violence against sexual and gender diverse people
- Rebecca L. Stotzer and Danielle R. Phillips
- Ch 14 Violence against Indigenous people
- Emily Wright and Sheena L. Gilbert
- Ch 15 Firearm violence in the United States
- Chiara Cooper, Zainab Hans, Jessica Roche and April M. Zeoli
- Ch 16 Understanding mass murder
- Emma E. Fridel and Kyle G. Knapp
- Ch 17 Serial murder
- Jack Levin and Julie B. Wiest
- Ch 18 Understanding gang violence
- Dena C. Carson and J. Michael Vecchio
- Ch 19 School violence
- Allison Kurpiel, Camille Figueroa and Pamela Wilcox
- Ch 20 Prison violence
- Alexandra V. Nur and Amber E. Krushas
- Ch 21 College student victimization
- Rebekkah L. Gross, Bonnie S. Fisher and John J. Sloan
- Ch 22 Neighborhoods and violent crime
- John R. Hipp and Cheyenne Hodgen
- Ch 23 Social institutions, anomie and violence
- Kamali’ilani T. E. Wetherell and Terance D. Miethe
- Ch 24 Robbery
- Amy Burrell and Sarah Wüllenweber
- Ch 25 Carjacking
- Michael Cherbonneau, James M. O’Berry and Heith Copes
- Ch 26 Exploring the impact of media violence
- Kelsey Westbury
- Ch 27 Ctrl+Alt+Aggression
- Sophia Shaiman and Christina Plakas
- Ch 28 I did it for the lulz
- Matthew Costello and James Hawdon
- Ch 29 Violence during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Ernesto Lopez
- Ch 30 The investigation and solvability of violent crime
- Fiona Brookman and Rebecca Nicholls
- Ch 31 Police use of force
- Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos and Geoffrey P. Alpert
- Ch 32 Violence against police
- P. Trey Bussey, Justin Nix and Michael Sierra-Arévalo
- Ch 33 Police initiatives for deterring and preventing violence
- Anthony A. Braga and Lisa M. Barao
- Ch 34 Alchemizing violent and toxic prisons into safe and healthy campuses
- Nancy Wolff, Joseph O’Connor and Summer Sprofera
- Ch 35 State sanctioned violence
- Talia Roitberg Harmon, David B. Taylor and Chelsea Henning
- Ch 36 Career violent offending
- Adrienne M.F. Peters, Amanda R. Champion and Raymond R. Corrado
- Ch 37 Triggers of brutality
- Timothy A. Akers, William G. Hervey and Tina Billington-Hughes
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