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YMAA Publication Center Krav Maga Combatives: Maximum Effect
Book SynopsisBECAUSE NOT ALL KRAV MAGA IS THE SAME® This book is designed for krav maga trainees, security-conscious civilians, law enforcement officers, security professionals, and military personnel alike who wish to refine their essential krav maga combatives, improve their chances of surviving a hostile attack and prevail without serious injury. Combatives are the foundation of krav maga counter-attacks. These are the combatives of the original Israeli Krav Maga Association (Grandmaster Gidon). It is irrefutable that you need only learn a few core combatives to be an effective fighter. Simple is easy. Easy is effective. Effective is what is required to end a violent encounter quickly, decisively, and on your terms. This book stresses doing the right things and doing them in the right way. Right technique + Correct execution = Maximum Effect. Contents include: Key strategies for achieving maximum combative effects Krav maga’s 12 most effective combatives Developing power and balance Combatives for the upper and lower body Combative combinations and retzev (continuous combat motion) Combatives for takedowns and throws Combatives for armbars, leglocks, and chokes Whatever your martial arts or defensive tactics background or if you have no self-defense background at all, this book can add defensive combatives and combinations to your defensive repertoire. Our aim is to build a strong self-defense foundation through the ability to optimally counter-attack.Trade Review“Kahn’s true hand-to-hand combat violence of action in realistic scenarios is one of the best I have seen.” —Michael D. McCune, SSgt, SERE Specialist, USAF “The counter-moves and techniques will take you to an elite level.” —Aaron Donald, 2017 and 2018 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, defensive tackle Los Angeles Rams “Kahn’s krav maga gives [me] the ability to break the will of the guy across from me.” —Khalil Mack, 2016 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, outside linebacker Chicago Bears “David Kahn was able to significantly improve the team members’ force protection posture and lethality in the event of a life-threatening altercation.” —Joshua W. Curtis, MSG, RIARNG, United States Army 19th Special Forces Group Operations NCO “The Krav Maga for Law Enforcement was just remarkable.” —Lieutenant Jose Medina, Philadelphia Police DepartmentTable of ContentsForeword Introduction The Optimum Use of This Book Chapter 1—Not All Krav Maga Is the Same Chapter 2—Key Strategies for Achieving Maximum Effect Chapter 3—Upper-Body Combatives Chapter 4—Lower-Body Combatives Chapter 5—Combatives Combinations and Retzev Chapter 6—Takedowns and Throws Chapter 7—Armbars, Finger Manipulations, Leg Locks, and Leg Triangle Chokes Notable Biographies About the Author
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Deep Democracy Exchange Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic
Book SynopsisJames Gilligan lays the foundation for a complete re-thinking of the nature and meaning of violence in society. He reveals the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who not only kill other people, but also destroy themselves rather than suffer shame and loss of self-respect.He focuses on how feelings of shame cause violent and vengeful behaviour, and argues that conventional punitive legal and penal systems which are based on notions of justice and retribution perpetuate violent behaviour. He was called in to the Massachusetts prison system because of the high rates of suicides and murders within state prisons there; when he left these rates had dropped almost to zero. This keenly argued and ground-breaking book is essential reading for everyone touched by violence, and all those who are working to prevent it and its consequencesTrade ReviewJames Gilligan has written a stunning book about violence. As a psychiatrist who has spent twenty-five years of his professional life treating men who committed murder, Gilligan draws poignantly on his work with prisoners to help us understand what motivates desperate men. In the end, he offers a compelling psychoanalytic explanation of violence while calling on society to take social, economic and cultural measures to help prevent the 'deadly epidemic' from spreading. -- Judith Friedlander, PhD., Dean of the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School for Social ResearchDr. Gilligan offers a personal and passionate summing up of his decades of empathic clinical work with men who have committed horrible crimes, and he succeeds in deepening our understanding of their inner lives, the dark world of prisons they inhabit, and the violence that pervades... society. -- Donald J. Cohen, M.D., Director, Yale Child Study CenterExtraordinary. Gilligan's recommendations concerning what does work to prevent violence...are extremely convincing...A wise and careful, enormously instructive book. -- Owen Renik, M.D., editor * Psychoanalytic Quarterly *Important and absorbing...a valuable book deserving a widespread and thoughtful readership. -- Norval Morris, Boston Globe, former Dean of University of Chicago Law SchoolTable of ContentsPrologue: Violence as Tragedy. Part 1. The Pathology of Violence. 1. Visits to Hell: Entering the World of the Prison. 2. Dead Souls. 3. Violent Action as Symbolic Language: Myth, Ritual, and Tragedy. Part 2. The “Germ Theory” of Violence. 4. How to Think About Violence. 5. Shame: The Emotions and Morality of Violence. Part 3. The Epidemiology of Violence. 6. The Symbolism of Punishment. 7. How to Increase the Rate of Violence – and Why. 8. The Deadliest Form of Violence is Poverty. 9. The Biology of Violence. 10. Culture, Gender, and Violence: “We Are Not Women”. Epilogue: Civilization and its Malcontents. Notes. Acknowledgements. Index.
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Stanford University Press Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking and profoundly moving exploration of the Armenian genocide, told through the traces left in the memories and on the bodies of its women survivors. Foremost among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the specter of tattooed Islamized Armenian women. Blue tribal tattoos that covered face and body signified assimilation into Muslim Bedouin and Kurdish households. Among Armenians, the tattooed survivor was seen as a living ethnomartyr or, alternatively, a national stain, and the bodies of women and children figured centrally within the Armenian communal memory and humanitarian imaginary. In Remnants, these tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger history, as the lived trauma of genocide is understood through bodies, skin, and—in what remains of those lives a century afterward—bones. With this book, Elyse Semerdjian offers a feminist reading of the Armenian Genocide. She explores how the Ottoman Armenian communal body was dis-membered, disfigured, and later re-membered by the survivor community. Gathering individual memories and archival fragments, she writes a deeply personal history, and issues a call to break open the archival record in order to embrace affect and memory. Traces of women and children rescued during and after the war are reconstructed to center the quietest voices in the historical record. This daring work embraces physical and archival remnants, the imprinted negatives of once living bodies, as a space of radical possibility within Armenian prosthetic memory and a necessary way to recognize the absence that remains.Trade Review"Remnants is a rich cultural history of the Armenian Genocide and a powerful investigation of patriarchal assault on the female body. An original work with broad meaning for all histories of mass violence and genocide, and their traumatic aftermaths."—Peter Balakian, author of Black Dog of Fate"Elyse Semerdjian has authored a brilliant book. Remnants is at once powerful, moving, engaging, and convincing. Its turn to bodies and voices, remnants and fragments—away from the traditional archive—restores the stories of those most silenced and forgotten, and shows how gender is pivotal to genocidal thinking. A real tour de force."—Beth Baron, author of The Orphan Scandal"Remnants is the book we've all been waiting for—breathtaking plot, methodological novelty without any accompanying conceit, theoretically and factually grounded. Elyse Semerdjian's work will prove regenerative in the best possible way."—Lerna Ekmekcioglu, author of Recovering Armenia"A very ethical book, demonstrating to all of us how one can recover a violent past with professionalism and grace instead of rhetoric and partisanship. Remnants recovers and gives agency to women who were silenced in history."—Fatma Muge Gocek author of Denial of ViolenceTable of Contents1. Zabel's Pen: Gender, Body Snatching, and the Armenian Genocide 2. Weaponizing Shame: Dis-memberment of the Armenian Collective Body 3. Rescuing "Kittens" in the Desert: The Armenian Humanitarian Relief Effort 4. Recovering Survivors in Aleppo, Replanting Bodies in Syria's Armenian Colonies 5. "Changelings" and "Halflings": Finding the Armenian Buried inside the Islamized Child 6. Aurora's Body, Humanitarianism, and the Pornography of Suffering 7. What Lies beneath Grandma's Tattoos? Traumatic Memories of Inked Skin 8. Wounded Whiteness: Branded Captives from the Old West to the Ottoman East 9. Removing the "Brand of Shame," Rehabilitating Armenian Skin 10. Counternarratives of Tribal Tattoos and Survivor Agency 11. If These Bones Could Speak: Early Armenian Pilgrimages to Dayr al-Zur 12. Feeling Their Way through the Desert: Affective Itineraries of "Non-Sites of Memory" 13. Bone Memory: Community, Ritual, and Memory Work in the Syrian Desert
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HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Fake Love
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Canelo The Night Swim: An absolutely gripping crime
Book SynopsisShe is the last hope for people seeking justice.True crime podcaster Rachel Krall has come to Neapolis, a small seaside town being torn apart by a devastating trial. A local golden boy – a swimmer destined for Olympic greatness – has been accused of raping the beloved granddaughter of the police chief.Used to being recognised for her voice, not her face, Rachel is unsettled when she finds a note on her car windshield, begging for her help. Twenty-five years ago, Jenny Stills drowned. Her sister insists it was murder.Rachel throws herself into covering the trial, but the letters keep coming. As the past and present start to collide, Rachel uncovers startling connections between the two cases. The truth will change the course of the trial, and the lives of everyone involved.An absolutely gripping thriller, featuring a true crime podcaster. Perfect for fans of Ashley Flowers and Riley Sager.Praise for The Night Swim:‘A blistering plot and crisp writing make The Night Swim an unputdownable read’ Sarah Pekkanen author of The Wife Between Us‘You get the courtroom drama, a front-row seat to an influential true crime podcast, and the uncovering of decades-long secrets buried within a small coastal town. Read this book, you won't regret it!’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Expertly written’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘A slow burn, character driven thriller... horrifying, heartbreaking and brilliantly written. I can’t wait to read more books by this author’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘I really enjoyed the dual timeline and thought using the different formats of podcast episodes, letters and first person narrative was very clever. This book tackles a lot of big issues within a gripping plot. Powerful reading.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review‘Gripping and heartbreaking with an undercurrent of unease running through it… I couldn’t bear to put it down. So tightly plotted you don’t see the twists coming!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review‘I absolutely loved it! If you love legal thrillers, secrets and podcasts, you need to read this.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review
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Verso Books A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Book Synopsis"A beautifully written and argued book." - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyThere is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one frighteningly basic question seems never to be answered: why does it happen? If men are not inherently evil and trans women do not intrinsically invite reprisal-which would make violence unstoppable-then the psychology of that violence had to arise at a certain place and time. The trans panic had to be invented.Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson takes us from the bustling port cities of New York and New Orleans to the streets of London and Paris in search of the emergence of modern trans misogyny. She connects the colonial and military districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai'i to the lively travesti communities of Latin America, where state violence has stamped a trans label on vastly different ways of life. Weaving together the stories of historical figures in a richly detailed narrative, the book shows how trans femininity emerged under colonial governments, the sex work industry, the policing of urban public spaces, and the area between the formal and informal economy.A Short History of Trans Misogyny is the first book to explain why trans women are burdened by such a weight of injustice and hatred.Trade ReviewJules Gill-Peterson is one of the most original thinkers on gender of the past decade; now in this beautifully written and argued book, she makes her compelling vision accessible to everyone. -- Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyThis is a sharply argued work by a brilliant thinker. By placing current the familiar and current political attack on trans femininity in Europe and North America within a much broader global and historical context, this text provides us with a rigorous and scholarly understanding of the origins and rationale of such violence. It educated and challenged me and it will become a vital contribution to political thought and organising around gender. -- Shon Faye, author of The Transgender IssueIn Jules Gill-Peterson's provocative and generative framing, trans misogyny is not a minoritizing term for describing the disparagement of femininity in trans women; it is a ubiquitous, infrastructural pressure that effects everyone to some degree, informing the hierarchy of lives deemed worth living. Details inside. -- Susan Stryker, Transgender History: The Roots of Today's RevolutionA Short History of Trans Misogyny is a nuanced, wide-ranging, and instantly canonical account from one of our foremost historians. Rich and eloquent with archival detail, this is a trans history that honors the complexity the subject deserves, that exposes the violence of colonial and neocolonial forms of sexualization, and that describes spaces of refusal to this brutality, both within the past and as threads of resistance in our present political landscape. An urgent, propulsive, and profound book." -- Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the FoxTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Femmes against Trans1. The Global Trans Panic2. Sex and the Antebellum City3. Queens of the Gay WorldConclusion: Mujerísima and Scarcity FeminismAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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HarperCollins Focus The FirstTime Manager HR
Book SynopsisThe must-have resource for HR managers who want to lessen the learning curve, succeed in their role, and set themselves up for future growth.The world of work continues to grow more complex with hybrid work, a shortage of talent, and a mandate for more inclusive environments where employees can do their very best work every day with peace of mind. These changes have created many exciting opportunities but also carry big risks for HR managers on the front lines in organizations in transition.Bestselling author and Human Resources expert Paul Falcone breaks down the landscape for new managers to quickly get up to speed covering recruitment, employee relations, compensation and benefits, “HR Defense” legal and compliance strategies to keep your organization safe, as well as “HR Offense” strategies to help drive organizational strategy and performance. This one-of-a-kind guide will:Round out your exposure to the full gam
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Stanford University Press Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side
Book SynopsisPerpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations, or racist and supremacist groups. Upon close examination, however, perpetrators are contradictory human beings who often lead unsettlingly ordinary and uneventful lives. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground research with perpetrators of genocide, mass violence, and enforced disappearances in Cambodia and Argentina, Antonius Robben and Alex Hinton explore how researchers go about not just interviewing and writing about perpetrators, but also processing their own emotions and considering how the personal and interpersonal impact of this sort of research informs the texts that emerge from them. Through interlinked ethnographic essays, methodological and theoretical reflections, and dialogues between the two authors, this thought-provoking book conveys practical wisdom for the benefit of other researchers who face ruthless perpetrators and experience turbulent emotions when listening to perpetrators and their victims. Perpetrators rarely regard themselves as such, and fieldwork with perpetrators makes for situations freighted with emotion. Research with perpetrators is a difficult but important part of understanding the causes of and creating solutions to mass violence, and Robben and Hinton use their expertise to provide insightful lessons on the epistemological, ethical, and emotional challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in the wake of atrocity.Trade Review"In Robben and Hinton's 'encounter with humanity's dark side' the perpetrator researcher and the evildoer become inextricably intertwined. Researchers' intimate fieldwork contact with perpetrators of mass atrocity sullies them, they feel dirty. And, yet, it reveals complex and contradictory human beings that unsettle facile assumptions about their monstrosity. How do researchers incorporate cognitive and affective empathy to understand the 'priming' that make atrocities possible, while condemning those acts? Perpetrators establishes the craft for doing so."—Leigh Payne, Oxford University"Written as a sustained conversation between two foundational figures in the field of perpetrator studies, this book offers a rich exploration of the individuals who operate the machinery of mass murder. The authors combine profound insights into universal phenomena, while demonstrating the importance of understanding local specificities and moral economies. This unsettling book charts a future research agenda for those who seek to understand the disturbing, unholy mixture of humanity among those who engage in lethal violence."—Kimberly Theidon, Tufts University"Perpetrators[:] Encountering Humanity's Dark Side provides a therapeutic and rewarding read for anthropologists and social scientists who have come into contact with agents of violence through their research, as well as for those who expect to do so."—Sergen Bahceci, Anthropology Book Forum"The book offers a curative reading: healing and, at the same time, crafting together pieces to be displayed in search of meaning. A necessary and exceptional book not only for anthropologists researching genocide and mass violence but also for a broader audience interested on how to approach and write about violence."—Corina Tulbure, Conflict and Society"Robben and Hinton set out to at once impart insights they acquired through decades of ethnographical research into genocide and mass violence, which they call phronesis following the ancient Greeks, and to do so in experimental and thought-provoking ways. Perpetrators is more of a guide than a 'how-to' manual, and yet it manages to provide the reader with practical and suggestive ideas for conducting ethnographic research and writing in a way that avoids the rigidity imposed by academia."—Stevan Bozanich, H-Genocide"In writing this book, Robben and Hinton provide a comprehensive and original contribution to the scholarly research on perpetrators of mass violence.... This is a must-read book. Highly recommended."—A. Kolin, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Approaching Perpetrator Research 1. Spectacular Perpetrators 2. Seductive Perpetrators Interlude: The Perpetrator and the Witness Interlude: "They Were No More. None of Them. They Had Become Disappeared." 3. The Night Stalkers 4. Ruin Interlude: For the Sake of the Fatherland Interlude: Interrogation: Comrade Duch's Abecedarian 5. Nearing the Paradox 6. Curation Conclusion: Six Guideposts for Perpetrator Research
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Berghahn Books Post-Ottoman Coexistence: Sharing Space in the
Book Synopsis In Southeast Europe, the Balkans, and Middle East, scholars often refer to the “peaceful coexistence” of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division. Post-Ottoman Coexistence interrogates ways of living together and asks what practices enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as well as how and when such sharing was disrupted. Contributors discuss both historical and contemporary practices of coexistence within the context of ethno-national conflict and its aftermath. Trade Review “This book will be the seminal work on the theme of coexistence. The dissolution of coexistence, which is also a subject of this volume, is an easier subject to cover, but by understanding the terms of coexistence one is better placed to understand the crises and violence that destroyed them too… I cannot think of a better study on the micro-dynamics of difference.” · Nicholas Doumanis, University of New South Wales, AustraliaTable of Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Everyday Coexistence in the Post-Ottoman Space Rebecca Bryant PART I: LANDSCAPES OF COEXISTENCE AND CONFLICT Chapter 1. Sharing Traditions of Land Use and Ownership: Considering the “Ground” for Coexistence and Conflict in Pre-Modern Cyprus Irene Dietzel Chapter 2. Intersecting Religioscapes in Post-Ottoman Spaces: Trajectories Of Change, Competition And Sharing Of Religious Spaces Robert M. Hayden Chapter 3. Cosmopolitanism or Constitutive Violence? The Creation of “Turkish” Iraklio Aris Anagnostopoulos Chapter 4. Trade and Exchange in Nicosia’s Shared Realm: Ermou Street in the 1940s and 1950s Anita Bakshi PART II: PERFORMING COEXISTENCE AND DIFFERENCE Chapter 5. In Bed Together: Coexistence in Togo Mizrahi’s Alexandria Films Deborah A. Starr Chapter 6. Memory, Conviviality and Coexistence: Negotiating Class Differences in Burgazadası, Istanbul Deniz Neriman Duru Chapter 7. “If you write this tačno, it will be točno!”: Performing Linguistic Difference in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina Azra Hromadzic *This chapter is not available in the open access edition due to rights restrictions. It is accessible in the print edition, spanning pages 180-206. PART III: NEGOTIATING EVERYDAY COEXISTENCE IN THE SHADOW OF CONFLICT Chapter 8. The Istanbul Armenians: Negotiating Coexistence Sossie Kasbarian Chapter 9. A Conflict of Spaces or of Recognition? Co-Presence in Divided Jerusalem Sylvaine Bulle Chapter 10. Grounds for Sharing, Occasions for Conflict: An Inquiry into the Social Foundations of Cohabitation and Antagonism Glenn Bowman Index
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AK Press Agitated: Grupos Autonomos and Armed
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Penguin Putnam Inc American Serial Killers
Book SynopsisFans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American Golden Age (1950-2000). With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the Golden Age of American serial murder, when the number and body count of serial killers exploded, Vronsky tells the stories of the most unusual and prominent serial killings from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century. From Ted Bundy to the Golden State Killer, our fascination with these classic serial killers seems to grow by the day. American Serial Killers gives true crime junkies what they crave, with both perennial favorites (Ed Kemper, Jeffrey Dahmer) and lesser-known cases (Melvin Rees, Harvey Glatman).
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Lantern Books,US An Illustrated Guide to Tactical Diagramming How
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Prometheus Books Mortal Evidence: The Forensics Behind Nine
Book SynopsisA lifeless newborn baby is found discarded in a motel Dumpster. Authorities quickly arrest the infant's teenage parents, charging them with murder. Did Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson, in fact, murder their own baby? Tammy Wynette died suddenly at a relatively young age, and yet no autopsy was performed? Was someone trying to hide the real cause of death? Did Sam Sheppard (later dubbed "The Fugitive" based on a television series) really kill his wife? And if not, who committed the murder? Things are not always as they appear, as world-renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht shows in this riveting behind-the-scenes look at nine famous cases. In the nationally known baby case involving Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson, Dr. Wecht reviews the evidence and comes to a startling conclusion. In fascinating detail, he demonstrates how the tools of forensic pathology often uncover murky, long-hidden secrets that crack seemingly unsolvable crimes. Writing in the first-person Dr. Wecht leads you into the heart of the investigation, focusing each chapter on a single engrossing drama. He reveals the most startling evidence that shows why JonBenet Ramsey's killer most likely came from within her home, why O.J. Simpson probably had an accomplice in the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, shocking revelations about Robert Berdella's grisly torture and sex-abuse crimes against young men, and many intriguing facts about other infamous cases. If you find the fictional plots of such dramas as C.S.I. exciting, you will be amazed by the true stories told by Dr. Wecht, with the help of two top-flight veteran reporters, Greg Saitz and Mark Curriden, in this amazing real-life thriller. As this intriguing page-turner proves, the science of forensic pathology has changed the face of detective work forever.Table of ContentsTeenage Baby Killers?: The Truth Behind the Death of Baby Boy Grossberg; A Fallen Beauty Queen: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?; Sex, Drugs, and a Dead Casino Magnate: How Ted Binion Died; The Real Fugitive: Sam Sheppard and His Wife's Murder; Shoot-Out in Miracle Valley: The Killing of Religious Sect Members; Standing by Her Man: Tammy Wynette's Final Song; The Trials of O.J.: The Final Verdict; Robert Berdella: Madman or Just Murderer?; Heavy Metal Murder: The Curious Demise of Robert Curley; Index.
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Turner Publishing Company Blind to Betrayal
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Detritus Books How Nonviolence Protects the State
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Rowman & Littlefield Acts of Violence in the School Setting: National
Book SynopsisSince the year 2000, there have been approximately 200 school shootings in the United States. Unfortunately, this is not simply a U.S. problem. In 2017, a 15-year-old Canadian male student committed suicide after shooting two other students and a teacher. During that same year, in Brazil, a private school student fatally shot two classmates and injured four. In 2018, a 13-year-old Russian girl opened fire with a gas pistol and injured seven 7th graders. Hence, school violence is a problem of global concern. The purpose of this proposed text is to address this international problem from a crime and criminal justice perspective. The school shooting at Columbine in 1999 gave politicians and the media the event that they had sought to spotlight the cruel and evil world of teens. Reporters, who did little to explore other incidents in the country related to child abuse, domestic violence, or gang warfare, quickly flocked to Littleton, Colorado to discuss the youth culture of bullying, violent video games, and dressing in black. However, is violence within the school environment really a new problem? The history of school violence follows the pattern of what most would consider the history of education. In 1913, a German teacher shot and killed four students and injured more than 20. In 1923, a headmaster killed two students in New Zealand. In 1925, a Lithuanian student killed two students and a teacher and, in the United States, in 1966, the infamous University of Texas Tower Shooting occurred. All individuals agree that a child attending school should be concerned with the process of learning, not with avoiding victimization and that the school environment should be a safe and secure location for both students and teachers. In addition, and most central to this text, without a safe school environment, students and teachers may be assaulted, injured, or killed. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, current research has shown a decline in the rates of school violence over the past three years; however, the few high-profile cases broadcast repeatedly in the media lead the public to other conclusions. Included in this textbook are definitions related to the types and categories of school violence (including bullying, stalking, and crimes against students that involve the internet), discussions on victims and offenders, and case examples. Also included in this textbook is information on criminal justice system responses to school violence from both a national and international perspective. Finally, this text discussed adult perpetrators of school violence and the explanations for such attacks.Table of ContentsChapter 1: School Violence: Definition and History Chapter 2: Bullying and Intimidation Chapter 3: Gangs and Cliques Chapter 4: School Shootings (2000-2017) and Media Perceptions Chapter 5: Mental Illness and School Violence Chapter 6: Warning Factors, Pre-Incident Indicators of School Violence in K-12 Environments Chapter 7: Victimization in Cyberspace Chapter 8: Adult Offenders Chapter 9: Violence in Higher Education Chapter 10: Controlling the School Environment: Criminal Justice Responses
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Penguin Books Ltd Pornography
Book SynopsisPornography is the orchestrated destruction of women's bodies and souls it is war on women'Pornography, Andrea Dworkin argued in this landmark work, is about power: the power of owning, of money, of sex. It is not merely violence against women, but the essential DNA of male dominance. As images of women's bodies continue to be manipulated and consumed, her searing, fearless critique of pornographic media is more urgent and discomfiting than ever. A major text for our time' Adrienne RichDworkin writes with power, anger, daring and from a great care and love of womankind' Alice WalkerThe woman who showed us the dark core of pornography, the punishing hatred of women that pervades it' Guardian
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Little, Brown Book Group Nobodys Victim Fighting Psychos Stalkers Pervs
Book SynopsisNobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't know exists - one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off - and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution.
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Guardian Faber Publishing No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made
Book SynopsisA gripping true crime account of radicalisation in Britain - and how it can be prevented. Longlisted for the ACLS Gold Dagger Award.'An incredible story, powerfully and beautifully told.' - James O'BrienFive teenage friends leave Brighton to wage jihad in Syria. All except one are killed. This is their untold story.No Return is a unique insight into a hidden Britain, based on true events that so shocked intelligence experts they are now the Home Office's lead case study into youth radicalisation.Drawing on a cache of leaked classified documents and unprecedented access to all the main players, award-winning investigative journalist Mark Townsend reveals the shocking truth behind what drew these young Britons to martyrdom in a foreign land. The end result is a fast-paced and powerfully gripping true crime account of radicalisation - and how it can be prevented.
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Simon & Schuster She Said Yes The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie
Book SynopsisTold by her mother, this is the story of Cassie Bernall, murdered in the Colombine High School massacre on 20 April, 1999, who when asked with a gun pointed to her head if she believed in God, answered "yes". This is an account of a teenager's path to self-discovery and her tragic death.
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Oxford University Press Inc The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine
Book SynopsisNarrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, narrative medicine draws patients, doctors, nurses, therapists, and health activists together to re-imagine a health care based on trust and trustworthiness, humility, and mutual recognition.Over a decade of education and research has crystallized the goals and methods of narrative medicine, leading to increasingly powerful means to improve the care that patients receive. The methods described in this book harness creativity and insight to help the professionals in being with patients, not just to diagnose and treat them but tobear witness to what they undergo. Narrative medicine training in literary theory, philosophy, narrative ethics, and the creative arts increases clinicians'' capacity to perceive the turmoil and suffering borne by patients and to help them to cohere or endure the chaos of illness.Narrative medicine has achieved an international reputation and reach. Many health care settings adopt methods of narrative medicine in teaching and practice. Through the Master of Science in Narrative Medicine graduate program and health professions school curricula at Columbia University, more and more clinicians and scholars have obtained the rigorous training necessary to practice and teach narrative medicine. This text is offered to all who seek the opportunity for disciplined training in narrative medicine. By clearly articulating our principles and practice, this book provides the standards of the field for those who want to join us in seeking authenticity, recognition, affiliation, and justice in a narrative health care.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Intersubjectivity Chapter 1. Accounts of Self: Exploring Relationality through Literature Maura Spiegel and Danielle Spencer Introduction Self-Telling: Colm Tóibín and the Need to Tell Monologue and Dialogue: Dostoevsky and Bakhtin Recognition in Bechdel's Fun Home: Thickening the Story Identification and Refusal in Kazou Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Conclusion Chapter 2. This Is What We Do, and These Things Happen: Experience, Emotion, and Relationality In The Classroom Maura Spiegel and Danielle Spencer Socio-relational dynamics and medical education The Narrative Medicine Classroom / Workshop Conclusion Part II: Dualism, Personhood, and Embodiment Chapter 3: Dualism and its Discontents I: Philosophy, Literature, and Medicine Craig Irvine and Danielle Spencer "Hi. How are you feeling today?": Tales of Alienation in Healthcare Biomedicine in recent history The Cave and the Machine: Philosophical Roots of Dualism Chapter 4: Dualism and its Discontents II: Philosophical Tinctures Craig Irvine and Danielle Spencer Philosophical Tinctures: Phenomenology and Narrative Hermeneutics Philosophical Narratives: Complexity and Multiplicity Soul Chapter 5: Deliver us from Certainty: Training for Narrative Ethics Craig Irvine and Rita Charon Narrative Ethics of Reading Narrative Ethics of Clinical Practice Ethics of Narrative Medicine Part III: Identities in Pedagogy Chapter 6: The Politics of Pedagogy: Cripping, Queering and Un-homing Health Humanities Sayantani DasGupta Introduction Crip Politics and the Medicalization of Health Humanities Queer Politics and the Problems of Intelligibility Un-Homing Narrative Medicine: Pedagogical Frames Conclusion Part IV: Close Reading Chapter 7: Close Reading: The Signature Method of Narrative Medicine Rita Charon The Origin and Fate of Close Reading Why Narrative Medicine Is Committed to Close Reading Close Reading and Its Progeny, Attentive Listening The Interior Processes of Close Reading Close Reading Enacts the Principles of Narrative Medicine Coda Chapter 8: A Framework for Teaching Close Reading Rita Charon One Way to Teach Close Reading Choosing Texts and Creating Prompts Time Space Voice Metaphor Conclusions and Room for Further Thought Part V: Creativity Chapter 9: Creativity: What, Why, and Where? Nellie Hermann Creativity in Our Everyday Lives What is Creative Writing for, particularly in the clinical context? Forms and Dividends of Creative Writing Creative Writing and Reflective Writing Chapter 10: Can Creativity be Taught? Nellie Hermann Strategies for Writing in the Health Professions A Teaching Tool: The Reading Guide for Reflective Writing The Approach to the Writing Student Finally: focus on the creative spark Part VI: Qualitative Ways of Knowing Chapter 11: The Ethnographic Field: Narrative, Visual, Contextual Edgar Rivera Colón Narrative Prelude Demystifying Qualitative Research Methods An Embodied, Reflexive Practice Making the world visible The Ethnographic Witness Part VI: Clinical Practice Chapter 12: A Narrative Transformation of Health and Health Care Eric Marcus and Rita Charon RC Tells the Clinical Story EM: Concepts-Transference and Transitional Space RC: Concepts-Creativity, Reflexivity, Reciprocity Coda Chapter 13: Clinical Contributions of Narrative Medicine Rita Charon Individual Interview/Relationship Techniques Clinician and Health Care Team Development Novel Narrative Practices Clinicians See Author Biographies Bibliography Index
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HarperCollins Publishers Enough The Violence Against Women and How to End
Book Synopsis'Outstanding' THE SECRET BARRISTERIt's brilliant, it's comprehensive, buy it' EVENING STANDARDA powerful, illuminating, enraging and inspiring read' JESS PHILLIPS MPPrecise, heartfelt and anti-pompous' THE TIMESWhy is our criminal justice system so bad at protecting women from violence?Reporting from the heart of the courtroom, this book sees barrister Harriet Johnson dissect the problems in our policing, laws and culture. How can we hold the police accountable, take stalking seriously and make justice a reality for sexual assault survivors?This is an unforgettable case for change and a clear plan of how we can make it happen.Trade Review A Waterstones ‘Best Books of 2022’ in Politics ‘Incredibly insightful … Johnson draws from law, from extensive experience at trial, and colours the text with specific cases … This is a book of great lucidity, mercifully devoid of legalese’Irish Times ‘A short, urgent manifesto … peppered with real cases that Johnson has worked on or known … She is precise, heartfelt and anti-pompous’The Times ‘Compelling and forensically written … She fills pages with vital facts to arm ourselves with so we can destroy lazy arguments. And then she lists what can and should be done to tackle root problems … It’s brilliant, it’s comprehensive, buy it. Give it to your male friends’Evening Standard ‘An urgent and vital call to arms that compassionately and forensically exposes the many ways in which the way we do criminal justice fails women, and offers practical and clear-sighted solutions on how to inject meaningful change into a legal system built by men, for men. Powerfully argued and compellingly written, this is an outstanding debut from Harriet Johnson. It should be read by everybody involved in criminal justice’The Secret Barrister ‘Harriet Johnson exposes the truth of how misogyny, corruption, underfunding and outdated systems pollute law and policing in our country. With shocking stories from the courtroom and deep research, this book is a powerful, illuminating, enraging and inspiring read’Jess Phillips MP ‘A brilliant, forensic exposure of why women cannot get justice. Harriet Johnson is a wonderful lawyer who captures with rapier precision the way law sustains patriarchy, fosters misogyny and blocks radical change’Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, author of Misjustice ‘This book will empower the vulnerable and make the powerful empathetic. It’s the clearest, most compelling and urgent argument for change’Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable
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HarperCollins Publishers Enough
Book Synopsis'Outstanding' THE SECRET BARRISTERIt's brilliant, it's comprehensive, buy it' EVENING STANDARDA powerful, illuminating, enraging and inspiring read' JESS PHILLIPS MPPrecise, heartfelt and anti-pompous' THE TIMESWhy is our criminal justice system so bad at protecting women from violence?Reporting from the heart of the courtroom, this book sees barrister Harriet Johnson dissect the problems in our policing, laws and culture. How can we hold the police accountable, take stalking seriously and make justice a reality for sexual assault survivors?This is an unforgettable case for change and a clear plan of how we can make it happen.Trade Review A Waterstones ‘Best Books of 2022’ in Politics ‘Incredibly insightful … Johnson draws from law, from extensive experience at trial, and colours the text with specific cases … This is a book of great lucidity, mercifully devoid of legalese’Irish Times ‘A short, urgent manifesto … peppered with real cases that Johnson has worked on or known … She is precise, heartfelt and anti-pompous’The Times ‘Compelling and forensically written … She fills pages with vital facts to arm ourselves with so we can destroy lazy arguments. And then she lists what can and should be done to tackle root problems … It’s brilliant, it’s comprehensive, buy it. Give it to your male friends’Evening Standard ‘An urgent and vital call to arms that compassionately and forensically exposes the many ways in which the way we do criminal justice fails women, and offers practical and clear-sighted solutions on how to inject meaningful change into a legal system built by men, for men. Powerfully argued and compellingly written, this is an outstanding debut from Harriet Johnson. It should be read by everybody involved in criminal justice’The Secret Barrister ‘Harriet Johnson exposes the truth of how misogyny, corruption, underfunding and outdated systems pollute law and policing in our country. With shocking stories from the courtroom and deep research, this book is a powerful, illuminating, enraging and inspiring read’Jess Phillips MP ‘A brilliant, forensic exposure of why women cannot get justice. Harriet Johnson is a wonderful lawyer who captures with rapier precision the way law sustains patriarchy, fosters misogyny and blocks radical change’Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, author of Misjustice ‘This book will empower the vulnerable and make the powerful empathetic. It’s the clearest, most compelling and urgent argument for change’Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Battered Woman
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Prisoners of Hate
Book SynopsisA front-runner in cognitive therapy research applies the lessons learned from decades of case studies to the problem of anger and violence, concluding that vexing problems of aggression, such as domestic violence, war, and genocide, result from a pattern of dysfunctional thinking. Reprint. 20,000 fi
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Bullied
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Not That Bad
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Future of Peace On the Front Lines with the
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Not That Bad
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Parkland
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Where You End and I Begin
Book SynopsisA daughter’s remarkable and unflinching exploration of the unconventionally intimate relationship she shared with her mother—a brilliant and charismatic woman haunted by past trauma. When her daughter is eight, Leah McLaren’s mother abruptly fled her life as rural house wife in search a glamorous career in the city. In the chaotic years that follow, Cecily lurches from one apartment, job and toxic romance to the next. In a home without rules or emotional boundaries, Leah and Cecily become confidants—a state of enmeshment that suits them both. Their bond is loving but also marked by casual indifference. Cecily’s self-described parenting style of “benign neglect” is a hilarious party joke, but for her daughter it’s reality.In Leah’s first year of high school, Cecily makes a disclosure that will forever alter their relationship: From 12 to 15, Cecily confides, she was the lover of her 45-year-old
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HarperCollins The Furies
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Furies
Book Synopsis“Arresting, deeply reported. . . . a patient reporter who embeds with her subjects long enough to write about their inner worlds with authority and nuance. . . . The Furies is deeply respectful of its subjects’ autonomy, including their self-justifications and mistakes. Flock largely withholds judgment, and her work is richer and more troubling because of it.” —Washington PostRenowned journalist and author of The Heart is a Shifting Sea Elizabeth Flock investigates what few dare to confront, or even imagine: the role and necessity of female-led violence in response to systems built against women.In The Furies, Elizabeth Flock examines how three real-life women have used violence to fight back, and how views of women who defend their lives are often distorted by their depictions in media and pop culture. These three immersive narratives follow
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc My Brother the Killer
Book SynopsisIn this remarkable memoir, a harrowing true story of family, violence, guilt and atonement, a journalist reflects on his own journey to come to terms with his brother’s terrible crimes—and to find justice for the young girl he killed.In the gritty docklands of south-east England, Alix Sharkey and his younger siblings grew up in awe of their charismatic yet violent father, a vicious alcoholic. Yet it was Alix’s kid brother Stuart—button-cute and fearless—who defended his siblings at home, at school and on the streets. Their fraternal bond was deep and powerful until Alix moved away from their rough hometown. Stuart remained—and slid into a furtive life of sexual violence against teenage girls, punctuated by prison time.Having started out inseparable, their paths diverged radically. Alix became a journalist, cosmopolitan and bilingual, working for upmarket media in London, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles. Today,
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Holding Fire
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Qualified
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Vintage Publishing Dark Heart
Book Synopsis''This all began quite unexpectedly one rainy autumn evening a couple of years ago in a fairground near to the centre of Nottingham...'' In amongst the bright lights and bumper cars, Nick Davies noticed two boys, no more than twelve years old, oddly detached from the fun of the scene. Davies discovered they were part of a network of children selling themselves on the streets of the city, running a nightly gauntlet of dangers: pimps, punters, the Vice Squad, disease, drugs. This propelled Davies into a journey of discovery through the slums and ghettoes of our cities. He found himself in crack houses and brothels, he befriended street gangs and drug dealers.Davies'' journey into the hidden realm is powerful, disturbing and impressive, and is bound to rouse controversy and demands for change. He unravels threads of Britain`s social fabric as he travels deeper and deeper into the country of poverty, towards the dark heart of British society.Trade ReviewThis book should be required reading...it will shock many to the quick, that all this could be happening under their noses -- Jack Straw * Guardian *He describes what he sees and hears with exemplary clarity, neither pulling punches nor exaggerating... Read him to discover how dreadful a country much of Britain has become -- Theodore Dalrymple * Sunday Telegraph *A most powerful and harrowing piece of investigative journalism...it takes a very brave and persistent reporter to reach the hidden part of Britain that Davies has chosen to explore -- Peregrine Worsthorne * New Statesman *If you want to find out about the poor, you have to go looking. Most people, most writers, don't bother. Nick Davies has bothered, and he should be congratulated...his analysis is spot on -- Robert Crampton * The Times *A brilliant journalistic investigation... A copy should be sent to every Labour MP to remind them of their responsibilities -- Robert McCrum * Observer *
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Penguin Putnam Inc Enlightenment Now
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST''S BOOKS OF THE YEARMy new favorite book of all time. --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.
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Oxford University Press Violence at the Urban Margins
Book SynopsisIn the Americas, debates around issues of citizen''s public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that the people suffering the most from violence live, and die, at the lowest of the socio-symbolic order, at the margins of urban societies. However, the inhabitants of the urban margins are hardly ever heard in discussions about public safety. They live in danger but the discourse about violence and risk belongs to, is manufactured and manipulated by, others--others who are prone to view violence at the urban margins as evidence of a cultural, or racial, defect, rather than question violence''s relationship to economic and political marginalization. As a result, the experience of interpersonal viTrade ReviewViolence at the Urban Margins is an excellent collection of cutting-edge ethnography on the brutality of everyday life in impoverished areas across the Americas. Auyero, Bourgois, and Scheper-Hughes are among the greatest contemporary scholars of violence, and here they've assembled work from the most important new voices in the field. It's an excellent resource for students, faculty, and anyone else interested in understanding the lived experience of urban outcasts in an increasingly unequal world * Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociology, New York University *This esteemed group of international scholars brings 'the margins' into the core of contemporary research. A compelling tour de force, Violence at the Margins takes us into the homes, streets, institutions and personal lives of those wielding, suffering, and combatting violence to shed light on power/lessness across global expressions. Weaving together multidisciplinary perspectives, this book adds compelling depth and dimensionality to the literature working to understand violence and its alternatives in the world today. * Carolyn Nordstrom, Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame *Violence at the Margins sets the tone for powerful anthropological interpretations of brutality, fear, and suffering among the poor and marginalised populations of North and South America. * Howard Campbell, Anthropological Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Kristine Kilanski and Javier Auyero ; Section 1: Shared Understandings ; Chapter One: The Moral Economy of Murder: Violence, Death, and Social Order in Nicaragua ; Dennis Rodgers ; Chapter Two: The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City ; George Karandinos, Laurie Hart, Fernando Montero Castrillo, and Philippe Bourgois ; Chapter Three: On the Importance of Having a Positive Attitude ; Kevin Lewis O'Neill and Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela ; Section 2: Gender and Masculinities ; Chapter Four: 'Es que para ellos el deporte es matar': Rethinking the scripts of violent men in El Salvador and Brazil ; Mo Hume and Polly Wilding ; Chapter Five: Duros and Gangland Girlfriends: Male Identity, Gang Socialisation and Rape in Medellin ; Adam Baird ; Section 3: Being in danger, what do people do? ; Chapter Six: Fear and Spectacular Drug Violence in Monterrey ; Ana Villarreal ; Chapter Seven: Chismosas and Alcahuetas: Being the mother of an empistolado within the everyday armed violence of a Caracas barrio ; Veronica Zubillaga, Manuel Llorens, and John Souto ; Chapter Eight: Managing in the Midst of Social Disaster: Poor People's Responses to Urban Violence ; Javier Auyero and Kristine Kilanski ; Chapter Nine: When the Police Knock Your Door In ; Alice Goffman ; Section 4: Ethnographic positions and the politics of violence ; Chapter Ten: Standpoint Purgatorio: Liminal Fear and Danger in Studying the "Black and Brown" Tension in Los Angeles ; Randol Contreras ; Chapter Eleven: When the Rule of Law is Irrelevant: Death Squads and Vigilante Politics in Democratic North East Brazil ; Nancy Scheper-Hughes ; Postface ; Philippe Bourgois ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence
Book SynopsisViolence has always played a part in the religious imagination, from symbols and myths to legendary battles, from colossal wars to the theater of terrorism. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence surveys intersections between religion and violence throughout history and around the world.Trade ReviewThe authors of the volume's forty essays, who represent many disciplines including religion, anthropology, sociology, and political science, among others, offer a variety of ways of construing and explaining that relationship in both tradition-specific and cross-cultural contexts. The volume is thus a good resource for teaching as well as for brief introductions to the history of religion and violence in multiple traditions and to theories of religion and violence from multiple disciplines. * Rosemary Kellison, Religious Studies Review *[A] timely collection that provides a welcome guide to the emerging field of studies in violence and religion. Among only a few such efforts to survey the field as a whole, the book explores religious violence in both the past and present as well as in all its social, psychological, and theological complexities...this diverse volume is certainly well worth picking up, as all involved in such scholarship are sure to find something of pertinent interest. * Journal of Contemporary Religion *The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence is a welcome addition to the burgeoning scholarly literature on the relationship between religion and violence...it should definitely be read by all those interested in the various ways religion has been used to legitimate violence. * Politics, Religion, & Ideology *Quite excellent and easily navigated by specialists and nonspecialists alike. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContributors ; Introduction: "The Enduring Relationship of Religion and Violence" - Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts, and Michael Jerryson ; Part I: Overview of Religious Traditions ; 1. Hindu: "Violence and Nonviolence at the Heart of Hindu Ethics" - Veena Das ; 2. Buddhist: "Buddhist Traditions and Violence" - Michael Jerryson ; 3. Sikh: "Sikh Traditions and Violence" - Cynthia Keppley Mahmood ; 4. Jewish: "Religion and Violence in the Jewish Traditions" - Ron Hassner and Gideon Aran ; 5. Christian:"Religion and Violence in Christian Traditions" - Lloyd Steffen ; 6. Islamic: "Muslim Engagement with Injustice and Violence"- Bruce Lawrence ; 7. African: "African Traditional Religion and Violence" - Nathalie Wlodarczyk ; 8. Pacific Island: "Religion and Violence in Pacific Island Societies" - Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart ; 9. Chinese: "Violence in Chinese Religious Traditions" - Meir Shahar ; Part II: Patterns and Themes ; 10. Evil: "The Religious Problem of Evil" - James Aho ; 11. Sacrifice: "Sacrifice/Human Sacrifice in Religious Traditions" - David Carrasco ; 12. Martyrdom: "Martyrdom in Islam" - David Cook ; 13. Self Mutilation: "Starvation and Self Mutilation in Religious Traditions" - Liz Wilson ; 14. Apocalypse: "Apocalyptic Religion and Violence" - Jamel Velji ; 15. Sacred War: "Cosmic War in Religious Traditions" - Reza Aslan ; 16. Genocide: "Genocide and the Religious Imaginary in Rwanda" - Christopher Taylor ; 17. Terrorism: "Terrorism as Performance Violence" - Mark Juergensmeyer ; 18. Torture: "Christianity and Torture" - Karen King ; 19. Just War: "Just War and Legal Restraints" - John Kelsay ; 20. Abortion: "Religiously Motivated Violence in the Abortion Debate" - Julie Ingersoll ; 21. Contested Sites: "Conflicts over Sacred Ground" - Ron E. Hassner ; 22. Political Violence: "Religion and Political Violence" - Monica Toft ; 23. Death Rituals: "Rituals of Death and Remembrance" - Susumu Shimazono and Margo Kitts ; 24. Violent Death: "Violent Death in Religious Imagination" - Margo Kitts ; Part III: Analytic Approaches ; 25. Sociology: "Religion and Violence from a Sociological Perspective" - John R. Hall ; 26. Anthropology: "Religion and Violence from an Anthropological Perspective" - Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern ; 27. Psychology: "Religion and Violence from a Psychological Perspective" - James W. Jones ; 28. Political Science: "Religion and Violence from a Political Science Perspective"- Daniel Philpott ; 29. Literary Theory: "Religion and Violence from Literary Perspectives" - Margo Kitts ; 30. Theology: "Religion and Violence from Christian Perspectives" - Charles Kimball ; Part IV: New Directions ; 31 Sacrifice: "Sacrificial Violence: A Problem in Ancient Religions" - Walter Burkert ; 32. Cities: "Cities as One Site for Religion and Violence" - Saskia Sassen ; 33. Armageddon: "Armageddon in Christian, Sunni and Shi'a Traditions" - Michael Sells ; 34. Phenomenal Violence: "Phenomenal Violence and the Philosophy of Religion" - Hent de Vries ; 35. Constructions of Evil : "The Construction of Evil and the Violence of Purification" - David Frankfurter ; 36. Mimetic Theory: "Mimetic Theories of Religion and Violence" - Wolfgang Palaver ; 37. Scarcity: "Religion and Scarcity: A New Theory for the Role of Religion in Violence" - Hector Avalos ; 38. Evolutionary Theory: "Ritual, Religion, and Violence: An Evolutionary Perspective" - Candance S. Alcorta and Richard Sosis ; 39. Rites of Terror: "Divergent Modes of Religiosity and Armed Struggle" - Harvey Whitehouse and Brian McQuinn ; 40. Sociotheology: "A Sociotheological Approach to Understanding Religious Violence" - Mark Juergensmeyer and Mona Sheik ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Islamophobia and Acts of Violence The Targeting
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Oxford University Press Victimhood Memory and Consumerism
Book SynopsisInhabitants of Medellín, Colombia, suffered from the war-like violence perpetrated by drug cartels and other actors in the 1980s and 1990s. Thousands died, including innocent civilians, judges, and journalists, many more were injured and suffered psychological trauma. Three decades later, however, transnational media companies such as Netflix have transformed the traumatic memories into entertainment while the main perpetrator, Pablo Escobar, became a recognizable brand name. Even as global audiences are captivated by Escobar''s life and myth, his victims'' stories fade into oblivion.Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence inflicted on Medellín, and critically examines the status of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the impact of commercial exploitation of the city''s violent past on the victims of mass drug violence and on the present nature of the city. To demonstrate the magnitude of the profits maTrade ReviewHow to make sense of a Pablo Escobar t-shirt? Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism is a fascinating and incisive analysis of the paradoxes of how mass drug violence in Medellín, Colombia has been commodified by the global culture industry of Netflix's Narcos and the mass-produced kitsch of dark tourism. The authors effectively show how this framing of violence as entertainment affects the lives and haunts the memories of the actual victims of violence in Medellín. * Marita Sturken, New York University, author of Tourists of History *Table of ContentsPreface 1: Introduction 2: A city at war 3: Invisible victims in a commodified world 4: Building a global brand 5: 'There are many uncomfortable dynamics in a production' 6: Dark consumerism and the trauma(tic) economy 7: The quest for recognition 8: Global hierarchies of victimhood 9: Conclusion References
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Oxford University Press Inc The Youth Gang Problem A Community Approach
Book SynopsisA systematic and comparative analysis of youth gangs and the youth gang problem in the United States, this book deals with hands-on issues of policy and programs, describing the strategies and techniques for dealing with gangs employed by criminal justice organizations, social agencies, schools, employment programs, and grass-roots organizations. Spergel combines empirical research, first-hand experience, and a solid theoretical base to expose the causes of the gang problem. Importantly, he recommends strategies that deal with gangs at a community level, using both local and national interests and resources to provide gang members with structured social and economic opportunities. He suggests a variety of specific techniques for dealing with the problem and shows how and why existing strategies have gone wrong. A practical and testable approach to a serious social problem, The Youth Gang Problem is a must-read for government officials, researchers, university instructors, and for anyonTrade ReviewLikely to be a basic resource for students of youth gangs for some time to come. * Choice *
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Oxford University Press Child Protection in America
Book SynopsisChild abuse and neglect are intractable problems exacting a terrible toll on children and rending the very fabric of our society. What can be done to reduce the suffering? If there were simple solutions to abuse and neglect they would have been discovered long ago. There are no easy answers, but in this vivid history of child protection in America, John E.B. Myers introduces realistic policies that will reduce maltreatment and strengthen the system that protects our children. Before it is possible to design viable improvements in today''s system, it is necessary to understand how it evolved. The sweeping, beautifully written account of child protection in America traces its growth from colonial days to the present--from the rise and gradual disappearance of orphanages, the growth of foster care, the birth of organized child protection in 1874, and the rise of private societies to prevent cruelty, to the twentieth-century transition to government-operated child protection.Myers goes on Trade Review"This compelling work traces child protection efforts from early colonial America to the present...Social workers and social work educators will find this work valuable, especially in its explanation of various organizations and larger-than-life reformers...all pivotal to this subject's history."--Doody's "This compelling work traces child protection efforts from early colonial America to the present...Social workers and social work educators will find this work valuable, especially in its explanation of various organizations and larger-than-life reformers...all pivotal to this subject's history."--Doody'sTable of ContentsPart I The Road Traveled: The History of Child Protection in America ; 1. Child Protection from the Colonial Period to 1875 ; 2. Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ; 3. Child Protection from 1900 to 1962 ; 4. Child Protection from 1962 to Present ; 5. Child Sexual Abuse ; Part II The Road Ahead: Child Protection Today, Causes of Child Abuse and Neglect, Roadblocks to Progress, Reducing Maltreatment, Improving Child Protection ; 6. Causes of Child Abuse and Neglect ; 7. Reducing Abuse and Neglect ; 8. Improving the Child Protection System
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Oxford University Press, USA Armies without Nations
Trade ReviewHolden's clear prose and steady argumentation mean that all reading levels will find reward in some portion of the book. * History *Armies without Nations builds an integrated, regional history and provides a crucial conceptual framework through which to understand how individuals and groups within these particular and emerging nations chose to employ similar tools and methods of social control to assure political power. * Journal of Latin American Studies *I know of no other work that explains so well the intimate relationship of the United States military establishment to the development of Central American military and police states in the mid-twentieth century. In its attention to all five of the Central American states, it also offers a valuable comparative analysis of public violence and policy in this region. * Ralph Lee Woodward, author of Central America: A Nation Divided *Theoretically informed and heavily documented with archival sources from both the United States and Central America, Holden's work is a major contribution to our understanding of the military and political history of the twentieth-century Central America. * American Historical Review *Based on extensive archival research in the United States and Central America, Robert Holden's Armies without Nations explores the history of state formation, public violence, and the role of United States' policy in Central America before the Cuban Revolution. Original theoretical contributions on the sources and agents of violence and careful case studies of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica from independence to 1961 make this book an important contribution to our understanding of the political and social history of Central America. * Brian Loveman, Fred J. Hansen Chair for Peace Studies and Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University *For the first time Central America's awesome capacity for fratricidal violence is accorded the status it deserves: the riddle to be solved and not some deviant version of an otherwise progressive history of development. This story began long before what Holden calls the post-World War II era of globalized public violence, and FDR's Good Neighborly military advisors share in the credit so proudly claimed by Reagan-era zealots from North and Poindexter to Abrams and Negroponte."-Lowell Gudmundson, co-author of Central America, 1821-1871Contrary to much of the scholarly literature of the 1980s, which sought causes for Central American violence in U.S. policy, and contrary also to the official U.S. government view at the time, which blamed Soviet or Cuban meddling, Holden argues that the prevalence of public violence in the region is a product of its own history and not of intervention by external actors....Scholars interested in militarism and violence in public life in Latin America, and especially in Central America, will want to read and discuss this book. * American Historical Review *
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Oxford University Press Using Social Science to Reduce Violent Offending
Book SynopsisOver the past three decades, the American criminal justice system has become unapologetically punitive. High rates of incarceration and frequent use of long-term segregation have become commonplace, with little concern for evidence that such practices make the public safer - and as the editors of this groundbreaking volume assert, they do not. Bringing together experts in the fields of social science, forensic psychology and criminal justice, Using Social Science to Reduce Violent Offending addresses what truly works in reducing violent offending. Promoting an approach to correctional policy grounded in an evidence-based and nuanced understanding of human behavior, leading authorities from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain offer specific and practical strategies for improving the criminal and juvenile justice systems. Beginning by covering the history and scope of violent crime and incarceration in the U.S., this pioneering volume offers clear and practical recommendations fTrade ReviewAn academically rigorous yet accessible book edited by Dvoskin, Skeem, Novaco, and Douglas, that intelligently explores gaps between empirical knowledge and criminal justice practice, and offers practical solutions to encourage researchers and policy makers to work together to create more informed policies. * PsycCritiques *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword ; Preface ; Contributors ; Part I. Defining the Problem: Crime, Incarceration, and Recidivism in the U.S. ; Chapter 1. Crime and rates of incarceration in the U.S. ; Alfred Blumstein ; Chapter 2. A short history of corrections: The rise, fall, and resurrection of rehabilitation through treatment ; Clive R. Hollin ; Part II. Targeting Contextual Contributors to the Problem ; Chapter 3. Contextual Influences on Violence ; David P. Farrington ; Chapter 4. The good, the bad, and the ugly of electronic media ; Muniba Saleem and Craig A. Anderson ; Chapter 5. Public attitudes and punitive policies ; Tom R. Tyler and Lindsay E. Rankin ; Part III. Improving Our Approach to Individual Offenders ; Chapter 6. The Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) Model of Correctional Assessment and Treatment ; Donald Andrews ; Chapter 7. Assessment and Treatment Strategies for Correctional Institutions ; Paul Gendreau and Paula Smith ; Chapter 8. Putting Science to Work: How the Principles of Risk, Responsivity and Need Apply to Reentry ; Susan Turner and Joan Petersilia ; Chapter 9. Reducing recidivism and violence among offending youth ; Barbara Oudekerk and Dickon Reppucci ; Chapter 10. Extending rehabilitative principles to violent sex offenders ; Judith V. Becker and Jill D. Stinson ; Chapter 11. Extending violence reduction principles to justice-involved persons with mental illness ; John Monahan and Henry J. Steadman ; Part IV. A Way Forward ; Chapter 12. Addressing system inertia to effect change ; James McGuire ; Chapter 13. What if psychology redesigned the criminal justice system? (Editors) ; Joel A. Dvoskin, Jennifer L. Skeem, Raymond W. Novaco, and Kevin S. Douglas ; Index
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