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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
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Contested Definitions
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Gendering Violent Practices
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Politics, War and Violence
Keywords
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Sophie Body-Gendrot and Pieter Spierenburg bring together a collection of essays on the social construction of violence in Western Europe. … the book’s strength lies in its conceptual sophistication and in its ability to pull together valuable points of view. … an extraordinary job of describing both the construction of violence and its changing nature. The editors and authors have produced a work that is an excellent primer for students and faculty seeking to understand violence in both a general and a particular sense.” (H. V. Savitch, Terrorism & Political Violence, 2012)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
With a Ph.D. in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and a B.A. and M.A. in American Studies from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, Sophie Body-Gendrot is a Professor of Political Science and of American studies at the Sorbonne, Paris. She founded the Center for Urban Studies (CEUMA). She is a researcher at the Centre de recherche sociologique sur le droit et les institutions pénales (CNRS-CESDIP-Dept of Justice) and an expert for the program Urban Age at the London School of Economics on safety and public space. She is also a member of the French Civilian Police Review Commission. She has wrote or co-edited more than fifteen books and over a hundred articles. The most recent works related to urban violence and public policies are La peur détruira-t-elle la ville? (Will Fear Destroy the City?); Violence in Europe (coedited with P. Spierenburg); Sortir des banlieues: Pour en finir avec la tyrannie des territories (Getting Out of Inner-cities: Putting an End to Territorial Tyranny); Police et discriminations raciales: Le tabou français; La société américaine après le 11 septembre?; Villes: La fin de la violence?; The Social Control of Cities; Villes et violence; and a chapter in The Endless City called "Confronting Fear."
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Violence in Europe
Book Subtitle: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Editors: Sophie Body-Gendrot, Pieter Spierenburg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74508-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-74507-7Published: 18 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2559-6Published: 29 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-74508-4Published: 08 January 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 256
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Social Sciences, general