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Death Threats and Violence

New Research and Clinical Perspectives

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  1. Stephen Morewitz
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  • Utilizes data from the Stalking and Violence Project, a large study of victims and offenders named in restraining orders filed in two large metropolitan areas

  • Covers a broad range of responding organizations – how do police, the courts, clinicians, social service professionals and therapists respond to victims? How effective are their responses?

  • Assesses the effectiveness of organized responses

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Homicidal Threats

    • Stephen J. Morewitz
    Pages 1-18

  3. Death Threat Makers

    • Stephen J. Morewitz
    Pages 19-31

  4. Death Threat Victims

    • Stephen J. Morewitz
    Pages 32-40

  5. Stalking and Homicidal Threats

    • Stephen J. Morewitz
    Pages 41-51

  6. Death Threats and Weapon Use

    • Stephen J. Morewitz
    Pages 52-61

  7. Substance Use and Abuse, and Homicidal Threats

    • Stephen J. Morewitz
    Pages 62-66

  8. Death Threats and Violence at Schools and Colleges

    • Stephen J. Morewitz
    Pages 67-83

  9. Workplace Homicidal Threats and Violence

    • Stephen J. Morewitz
    Pages 84-94

  10. Crime, Culture and War

    • Stephen J. Morewitz
    Pages 95-101

  11. Hate Crimes

    • Stephen J. Morewitz
    Pages 102-118

  12. Death Threats and Terrorism

    • Stephen J. Morewitz
    Pages 119-127

  13. Death Threats and the Legal System

    • Stephen J. Morewitz
    Pages 128-137

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 147-188
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About this book

Until recent decades, there was little emphasis on studying death threats as a social or psychological phenomenon. However, since the 1960s, attacks on public officials and celebrities and the ubiquitous nature of homicidal threats in face-to-face re- tions have spawned research and new organizational responses to death threats and related behaviors, such as stalking. Publicized workplace-related death threats and shootings, such as the 21 separate incidents since 1986 in which U.S. Postal Service employees were shot, and the death threats and attacks directed at schools and universities have helped to transform death threats from a private phenomenon into a social problem. Political leaders have developed new policies, organizational structures, and laws in an attempt to prevent death threats and related violence. Moreover, in the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. government and other governments around the world have formulated new policies and organizational structures to deal with the threat of terrorist attacks. At the level of interpersonal relations, the weakening of social control processes allows individuals to make homicidal threats against people and organizations in different settings. This book will address such questions as, Under what conditions are individuals able to evade social control by making death threats? What factors trigger the response of social control mechanisms to death threat makers? How effective are the institutional responses to death threats? At the macrolevel, this book assesses how governments and paramilitary and terrorist groups also employ death threats to achieve their desired social and political objectives.

About the author

Stephen J. Morewitz has almost 20 years of experience as a behavioral/public health scientist, university faculty member, and consultant. He runs a research institution in San Francisco supervising research on the epidemiology and psychosocial aspects of the lower extremity disease/injury, disability, diabetes, and arthritis, and more. He has served on the staff or faculty of Michael Reese Hospital & Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine & School of Public Health, DePaul University, Argonne National Laboratory, & the California College of Podiatric Medicine.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Death Threats and Violence

  • Book Subtitle: New Research and Clinical Perspectives

  • Authors: Stephen Morewitz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76663-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-76661-4Published: 28 August 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2631-9Published: 29 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-76663-8Published: 05 November 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 188

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology

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