Violence & society / Larry Ray.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. SAGE, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: Second editionDescription: xiii, 300 pages illustrations 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781473907911
- 9781473907904
- 1473907918
- Violence and society [Portion of title]
- 303.6 23/swe
- Oaa
- Oclb
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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.