…their everyday life and women’s vulnerability to violence. Structural violence contributes to gendered interpersonal violence both by causing it and by preventing society and victims from confronting it effectively. My…

…political violence can have a corrosive effect.  According to political scientist Lilliana Mason, political violence amounts to a rejection of democracy. “If a person has used violence to achieve a…

…devoted to gun violence. And so I shifted my focus to gun-violence prevention. This was 2012, and the conversation about gun violence as a public health issue was still very…

…what I mean? And that’s just using police violence as an example. But there are other types of violence on the communal level that are always impacting people. Health disparities…

…who are disproportionately involved in individual violence, whereas it is often the best socialized who are involved in intergroup violence. Individual violence is represented in the statistics of violent crime:…

…I was a single parent at the time, and I needed to find something that provided a bit of stability and medical insurance. I come from a family of uniformed…

…have on her risk of intimate partner violence. Similarly, my statistical analysis examines how household characteristics such as crowding and the presence of extended family members affects violence against women….

…of gun and gang violence. The most important drivers of gang violence appear to be the ways in which reciprocity and status-seeking violence unfold within such conflict networks. This project’s…

…and sentencing policies in explaining why similar cities have very different levels of violence. In teaching about violence, my objective is always to give my students a sense that violence…

…not reconcile politically rationalized violence with disproportionate excessive violence–its notion of political violence remained resolutely within an enlightenment framework. Amnesty applicants were thus indemnified for political justifications of human rights…