Violent Accounts

Author : Robert N. Kraft
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479821608
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violent Accounts written by Robert N. Kraft and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent Accounts presents a compelling study of how ordinary people commit extraordinary acts of violence and how perpetrators and victims manage in the aftermath. Grounded in extensive, qualitative analysis of perpetrator testimony, the volume reveals the individual experiences of perpetrators as well as general patterns of influence that lead to collective violence. Drawing on public testimony from the amnesty hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the book interweaves hundreds of hours of testimony from seventy-four violent perpetrators in apartheid South Africa, including twelve major cases that involved direct interactions between victims and perpetrators. The analysis of perpetrator testimony covers all tiers on the hierarchy of organized violence, from executives who translated political doctrine into general strategies, to managers who translated these general strategies into specific plans, to the staff—the foot soldiers—who carried out the destructive plans of these managers. Vivid and accessible, Violent Accounts is a work of innovative scholarship that transcends the particulars of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to reveal broader themes and unexpected insights about perpetrators of collective violence, the confrontations between victims and perpetrators in the aftermath of this violence, the reality of multiple truths, the complexities of reconciliation, and lessons of restorative justice.

Author : Karen A. Cerulo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000947408
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deciphering Violence written by Karen A. Cerulo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current information age, Americans are bombarded daily with stories and images portraying a rising tide of violence. Drawing on media that includes television, newspaper, fiction, film, painting and photography, as well as interviews and focus groups, Karen Cerulo explores the ways in which individuals think about, depict and evaluate violence. Moving beyond typical studies that focus on violent story content, Deciphering Violence decodes the role of story structure itself and how the sequencing of facts can systematically influence our moral judgements of violent acts. The book identifies institutionalized forms of violent storytelling and raises new possibilities both for decreasing public tolerance of violence and increasing social control of the phenomenon.

Author : Zvi Eisikovits
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452221286
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locked in A Violent Embrace written by Zvi Eisikovits and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing an entirely new approach to domestic violence interventions, this book is based on data accumulated by the authors over the past 12 years from a series of qualitative studies and clinical practice with battered women and their batterers.

Author : Lucas Gottzén
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100021799X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence written by Lucas Gottzén and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence examines how gender and other social identities and inequalities shape experiences of, and responses to, violence in intimate relationships. It provides new insights into men as both perpetrators and victims of violence, as well as on how to involve men and boys in anti-violence work. The chapters explore partner violence from the perspectives of researchers, therapists, activists, organisations, media as well as men of different background and sexual orientation. Highlighting the distinct and ambivalent ways we relate to violence and masculinity, this timely volume provides nuanced approaches to men, masculinity and intimate partner violence in various societies in the global North and South. This book foregrounds scholarship on men and masculinities in the context of intimate partner violence. By doing so, it revitalises feminist theorising and research on partner abuse, and brings together the fields of masculinity studies and studies of intimate partner violence. The book will be a vital resource for students and scholars in criminology, gender studies, psychology, social work and sociology, as well as those working with men and boys.

Author : Leigh A. Payne
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822340829
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unsettling Accounts written by Leigh A. Payne and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFocuses on perpetrators of human rights crimes, investigating confessions by human rights violators in contexts of transitional justice in South America and South Africa./div

Author : Dudley D. Cahn
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791493830
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Violence written by Dudley D. Cahn and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-01-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors engage the communication issues associated with violence in families, including interspousal violence and violent parents and children.

Author : Raymond M. Lee
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415301312
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Researching Violence written by Raymond M. Lee and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to, and demonstration of, the ingenious and courageous actions of researchers in this sensitive area, this key text investigates the ethical and emotional issues arising from working with the victims and perpetrators of violence.

Author : Jurgita Bukauskaite
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000866556
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Domestic Violence as a Gender-based Human Rights Violation written by Jurgita Bukauskaite and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the prevalent issue of domestic violence, this book breaks down the reasons behind the ineffectiveness of existing human rights instruments and the gaps in current legal systems failing those in need. Through a variety of key case studies, it reveals significant gaps in the legal conceptualisation of domestic violence between human rights standards on the one hand and the national legal systems examined—those of Ireland and Lithuania—on the other. The book reveals that, contrary to gender-based universal human rights approaches and despite recent legislative reforms, the legal concept of domestic violence is gender-blind. It fails to capture gender-based empirical realities on the ground, rendering national legal systems devoid of an empirically informed theoretical basis for addressing the problem. Despite the differences in the contextual backgrounds of the two case study countries, the legislation on domestic violence is underpinned by patriarchal beliefs in both. This book employs a gender-based examination of the issue that will be of key interest to scholars, legal practitioners, civil society actors, and students of feminist legal theory, gender equality, gender in international law, gender and human rights and conceptual democracy.

Author : Lynne Harne
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 184742211X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violent Fathering and the Risks to Children written by Lynne Harne and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on violent fathering and discusses research in the context of domestic violence. It examines fathers' perceptions of their domestic violence amd its impact on children, their relationships with children and their parenting practices. It also recommends ways that policy and practice can be improved.

Author : Ksenija Bilbija
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350424
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accounting for Violence written by Ksenija Bilbija and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America, scholars analyze the memory markets in six countries that emerged from authoritarian rule in the 1980s and 1990s.