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Violence & society / Larry Ray.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. SAGE, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: Second editionDescription: xiii, 300 pages illustrations 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781473907911
  • 9781473907904
  • 1473907918
Other title:
  • Violence and society [Portion of title]
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 303.6 23/swe
Other classification:
  • Oaa
  • Oclb
Contents:
Introduction: what is violence? -- Theories of violence -- Origins of violence -- Elias and the civilizing process -- Violence and urban space -- Gender and violence -- Domestic violence -- Explaining homicide -- The politics of 'hate crime' -- Collective violence -- Modernity and genocide -- Violence and the visual.
Summary: Larry Ray offers a wide-ranging and integrated account of the many manifestations of violence in society. He examines violent behaviour and its meanings in contemporary culture and throughout history.
Holdings
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Total holds: 0

First published 2011

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-295) and index.

Introduction: what is violence? -- Theories of violence -- Origins of violence -- Elias and the civilizing process -- Violence and urban space -- Gender and violence -- Domestic violence -- Explaining homicide -- The politics of 'hate crime' -- Collective violence -- Modernity and genocide -- Violence and the visual.

Larry Ray offers a wide-ranging and integrated account of the many manifestations of violence in society. He examines violent behaviour and its meanings in contemporary culture and throughout history.

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