Violence : Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780896804814
- 303.6
- HM886 .B97 2012
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 The Confluence of Violence: From Analysis to Resolution -- CHAPTER 2 The Violence Prism: Framing a Typology of Theories of Violence -- CHAPTER 3 Violence Unveiled: Causes and Varieties of Youth Violence and Strategies for Intervention -- CHAPTER 4 Understanding and Preventing Violence against Women and Interpersonal Violence in the Home -- CHAPTER 5 Understanding and Preventing Hate Crimes in Communities: Xenophobia, Homelessness, Racism, Soccer Hooliganism, Anti-GLBT, and Neo-Fascist Violence -- CHAPTER 6 Understanding and Preventing Corporate Violence and Abusive Behavior in the Workplace -- CHAPTER 7 Ethnopolitical Conflict: Causes, Intervention, and Prevention -- CHAPTER 8 War: Causes, Intervention, and Prevention -- CHAPTER 9 Peace and Conflict Studies: Nonviolence, Social Justice, Human Rights, and Social Change -- CHAPTER 10 The Violence Prism: Building Cultures of Peace to Make a Difference -- References -- Index.
In a world desperate to comprehend and address what appears to be an ever-enlarging explosion of violence, this book provides important insights into crucial contemporary issues, with violence providing the lens.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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