Violence
In: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society; (2023)
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- 136
This book considers how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined, and explored by social researchers and thinkers. It does not provide a final answer to the question of what violence is or how it should be explained (or prevented), and instead offers a variety of useful ways of thinking about and theorising the phenomenon, mainly from a sociological standpoint. It outlines four ways of understanding violence: • Violence as situation: the tension that exists between category-driven and situational explanations. • Violence as speciality: the study of particularly violent actors, and how they may be understood by reference to childhood histories, technologies, institutions, culture, class, and gender. • Violence as politics: political violence and violent politics. • Violence as storytelling: representations of violence from a narrative perspective. Concluding with reflections on possible convergences between the four approaches and new directions for research, this book offers a unique and experimental approach to discussing and reconstructing the concept of violence. It is essential reading for criminologists, sociologists, and philosophers alike.
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Violence
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Wästerfors, David |
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Quelle: | Routledge Studies in Crime and Society; (2023) |
Veröffentlichung: | Taylor & Francis; Routledge, 2023 |
Medientyp: | E-Book |
Umfang: | 136 |
ISBN: | 978-1-032-20438-3 (print) ; 978-1-032-20448-2 (print) ; 978-1-000-62399-4 (print) |
DOI: | 10.4324/9781003263579 |
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