Overview
Provides unique perspectives on how the phenomenon of violence can be controlled, even when the traditional control-mechanisms don’t work anymore
Brings together a group of top violence-researchers from Europe (Heitmeyer, Michel Wieviorka) and the US (Charles Tittle, Steve Messner)
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Introduction
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Mechanisms and Strategies of Violence Control
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The Micro-Level: School Shootings
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The Meso-Level: Terrorism
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About this book
The Control of Violence in Modern Society, starts from the hypothesis that in modern society we will face an increasing loss of control over certain phenomena of violence. This leads to unpredictable escalations and violence can no longer be contained adequately by the relevant control regimes, such as police, state surveillance institutions, national repression apparatuses and international law. However, before investigating this hypothesis from an internationally and historically comparative perspective, the terms and "tools" for this undertaking have to be rendered more precisely. Since both "control" and "violence" are all but clear-cut terms but rather highly debatable and contested concepts that may take multiple connotations. The main question is whether an increase in certain forms of violence can be explained by the failure or, in turn, "overeffectiveness" of certain control mechanisms. It is asked, for instance, which contribution religion can make to limit violence and, in turn, which destructive potential religion might have in its fundamentalist form. Moreover, the concept of individual self-control as well as social institutions and strategies of collective disengagement and de-radicalization are investigated with regard to their potential for controlling violence.
The Control of Violence in Modern Society concludes with a re-examination of the hypothesis of a loss of control by specifying in what cases and under which circumstances we can speak of a loss of control over violence.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Control of Violence
Book Subtitle: Historical and International Perspectives on Violence in Modern Societies
Editors: Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Stefan Malthaner, Andrea Kirschner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0383-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0382-2Published: 02 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8872-0Published: 01 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0383-9Published: 04 November 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 622
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Political Science