Search results for “[Subject: violence-in-society]”

• Author(s): Tbd • Publisher: Teraedre • Publisher Imprint: Teraedre • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Nazand Begikhani • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Abuse - General'Honour'-based violence is a form of intimate violence committed against women (and some men) by husbands, fathers, brothers an...

• Author(s): Meredith W. Watts • Publisher: Jai Press Inc. • Publisher Imprint: Jai Press Inc. • BISAC: CriminologyThis volume brings together contributions from a group of international scholars concerned with cross-cultural perspectives on yout...

• Author(s): Douglas P. Fry | Kaj Bjrkqvist | Kaj Bjorkqvist • Publisher: Psychology Press • Publisher Imprint: Psychology Press • BISAC: Violence In SocietyThis volume's central purpose is to provide a clearly written, scholarly exploration of c...

• Author(s): Anne Wade • Publisher: Society Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Society Publishing • BISAC: GeneralCrime against women and children examines various crimes that happen with women and children including an extensive overview of types o...

• Author(s): Rekha Pande | Sita Vanka • Publisher: Rawat Publication • Publisher Imprint: Rawat PublicationToday, violence is an increasing problem in our society, and in this context, battered women deserve special attention. The many forms of v...

• Author(s): Jonathan Davies • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialInterest in the history of violence has increased dramatically over the last ten years and recent studies h...

• Author(s): Heide Gerstenberger • Publisher: Haymarket Books • Publisher Imprint: Haymarket Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismDespite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalis...

• Author(s): Brandon Hamber • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Social PsychologyFrom the Back CoverIt is a momentous day for a nation when war is over or a brutal regime ends. For victims and survivors of political atroc...

• Author(s): Louise Heren | Laura A. Belmonte • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - ScotlandTaking fifteen real-life criminal cases prosecuted at the High Court of Justiciary i...

• Author(s): Emily Schindeler • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: CriminologyViolence is defined by the World Health Organisation as the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, which...

• Author(s): Suzette Heald • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialDrawing on twenty years of fieldwork and on psycho logical theory this book explores issues of male identity among the G...

• Author(s): Anna Carline • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralArguing that law must be looked at holistically, this book investigates the 'hidden gender' of the so-called neutral or obje...

• Author(s): Tiffiny A. Tung • Publisher: University Press of Florida • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Florida • BISAC: Archaeology"A ground-breaking study that provides one of the best case studies we have in the bioarchaeology of violen...

• Author(s): Margo Kitts | Kitts • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalIn Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found ...

• Author(s): Alexandra Onuf | Nicholas Ealy | Nicholas Ealy • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Historical EventsThis volume examines late medieval and early modern warfare in France,...

• Author(s): Antonio Sorge • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyThe inhabitants of highland Sardinia proudly declare a long history of resistance to outside authority. Ma...

• Author(s): Brett Bebber • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social HistoryThis study, based on government records, newspaper articles and fanzines, explores the complex interaction between politicians, poli...

• Author(s): Markus Zehnder | Hallvard Hagelia • Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd • BISAC: Biblical Studies - GeneralOur world is full of violence, with repeated acts of terrorism and general...

• Author(s): Roger Lane • Publisher: Greenwood Press • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood Press • BISAC: Sociology - General

• Author(s): Janet Stanley • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: Social WorkSerious child protection failures haunt health and welfare agencies around the world. Based on interviews with protective workers and rigorous examinati...

• Author(s): John Tutino • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Latin America - GeneralThe description for this book, From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Vi...

• Author(s): Erin Vanessia Abraham • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis book is an early medieval social history based on the early penitentials, with up-to-date translations of these often-ignored ...

• Author(s): Heather Ashley Hayes • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: American Government - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis work examines violence in the age of the terror wars with an eye toward the technologies...

• Author(s): Jean-Marc Dreyfus | Élisabeth Anstett • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyWhether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publicly displayed, human remains r...

• Author(s): Youssri Ezzat Hussein Abdelwahed • Publisher: British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Ltd • Publisher Imprint: British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Ltd • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralDrawing on papyrological evidence (especially l...

• Author(s): Kees Koonings • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaAs cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable. From ...

• Author(s): Guy Halsall | Guy Halsall | Thomas S. Brown • Publisher: Boydell Press • Publisher Imprint: Boydell Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalEssays suggest or explore reasons why violent acts might have been perpetrated, and attempt to unders...

• Author(s): Ellen Furnari • Publisher: Bod - Books on Demand • Publisher Imprint: Bod - Books on Demand • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralUnarmed civilian peacekeeping or protection (UCP) is a generic term that gives recognition to a wide range of act...

• Author(s): Zahia Smail Salh • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyAs a result of the uprisings that spread across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2...

• Author(s): Alex P. Jassen • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Judaism - Sacred WritingsViolence is one of the key themes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It captured the imagination of the Se...

• Author(s): Suzette Heald • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social'An impressive and meticulously crafted African ethnography, which has theoretical and practical relevance for understan...

• Author(s): David T. Mayeda • Publisher: iUniverse • Publisher Imprint: iUniverse • BISAC: EssaysIn recent years, mixed martial arts, also known as "ultimate fighting", has become the fastest-growing sport in American society, but it is also con...

• Author(s): Malak Badrawi • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Middle East - EgyptThe murder of the Prime Minister, Butrus Ghali, in February 1910, was the first incident of its kind to take place in Egypt for over a ce...

• Author(s): Martin A. Miller • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: TerrorismWhy is it that terrorism has become such a central factor in our lives despite all the efforts to eradicate it...

• Author(s): Günes Murat Tezcür • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Religion, Politics & StateWinner of the Religion and International Relations Book Award of the Religion and Internati...