“People Who Do Harmful Things Are Reacting to Harmful Things”: A Conversation with Marlon Peterson …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…
Distinctive Characteristics of Marital Violence The study of violence has become increasingly specialized. Researchers and policy makers focus on such topics as domestic violence, sexual assault, or violence between strangers. Specialization can be beneficial, but…
A Political Science Perspective on Teaching about Violence …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…
Remembering Violence and the Transvaluation of the Public Sphere …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…
Some Things Psychologists Think They Know About Aggression and Violence …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:…
HFG African Fellows …the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest, Stellenbosch University), Sensing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa: Vocal Performance as Witness and Apology See Full List…
Happy Marriages: Civilizing Domestic Life in Costa Rica, 1850–1950 …divorce, gender relationships, and domestic violence were modified. During the colonial period and while the General Law of 1841 was in force (until 1887), only Christian marriage and church-approved or…
‘Political Polarization Has Become Almost a Form of Entertainment’: A Conversation with Clionadh Raleigh Clionadh Raleigh Clionadh Raleigh, a professor of political violence and geography at the University of Sussex, has been studying violence for more than twenty years and has come to a…