…Blackfoot people—from eighteenth-century British fur traders to early-twentieth-century ethnographers—witnessed very little interpersonal violence within Blackfoot communities. In Never in Anger, her study of a Canadian Inuit community nearly fifty years…

…of national importance and their commitment to research and science over many years will enhance our ability to better understand and address the violence that afflicts our world.” Andre M….

…equivalent of nation. These characteristics imply a potential for violence. While outwardly dissimilar, White and Black racial separatisms possess belief systems that are structurally similar. Each possesses a myth of…

We conducted several studies evaluating the link between physiological factors and violence. First, we reviewed the literature linking low and lowered cholesterol to violence and to lowered brain serotonin activity….

…population growth of Latinos—soon to be the largest ethnic minority group in the U.S.—writers and researchers have promoted a discussion about urban violence that rests on beliefs, guesses, and opinions…

…emergency” to justify their violence against nonconforming Muslims, Christians, and ‘yan Bori (adherents of a syncretic animist-Islamic religion); they, too, through violence have affectively placed themselves outside of Shari’ah Law….

…in which both the mind and body are trained to feel comfortable with, and need, guns. Cognitively, it means developing interpretative frames for thinking about guns, safety, and violence. Specifically,…

…problems of violence in Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the United States. As always, we hope that research on how violence originates, what sustains it,…

…continents, are embarking on research to clarify the causes and dynamics of grave violence. In some cases, the violence happens one victim at a time; in others an entire ethnic…

…you that our heightened state of partisanship could lead to violence? Comparative research suggests that polarization is one factor that drives political violence. It has also certainly played a role…