Local Government Violence and Rights Struggles in Contemporary Rural China …organize cross-community efforts. Third, local authorities usually turn to repression and often use violence against protest leaders because they face strong pressure from their superiors and they lack necessary political…
Violence Reduction and Social Inclusion in Ecuador: Legalizing Street Gangs and Declining Rates of Homicide …of heightened political instability as well as the vulnerability of these groups for government targeting as the political demands of the moment require. Interestingly, despite a freezing of relationships between…
Knowledge Against Violence Speaker Series The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Knowledge Against Violence speaker series provides timely research and analysis for an informed audience from leading violence experts. Guest speakers, drawn from the Foundation’s network…
Hitler’s Prisons: Prisons and Penal Policies in Germany, 1900–1945 …little evidence for physical violence among the prisoners, so common in the contemporary prison. Overall, it seems that such violence was mostly limited to prison camps, where the authorities delegated…
Violent Street Groups and Organized Crime in Russia …violence have subsided. Eruptions of uncontrolled violence are now an obstacle to the gangs’ business aims, and the gangs try to limit fights and conflict on their territory. They have…
“Violence and the Law at War”: Dr. Craig Jones Dr. Craig Jones Dr. Craig Jones is the author of The War Lawyers and a lecturer in political geography in the School of Geography, Sociology, and Politics at Newcastle University. “Violence and…
Violence and the Pandemic: Urgent Questions for Research …future violence trends are the topic of Violence and the Pandemic: Urgent Questions for Research by Manuel Eisner (University of Cambridge and University of Zurich) and Amy Nivette (Utrecht University)….
Intimate Violence in Community Context …intimate homicide rates and self-reports of nonlethal partner violence at the individual level. However, collective efficacy exerts a more powerful regulatory effect on nonlethal violence in neighborhoods where the tolerance…
Drug Violence, Fear of Crime, and the Transformation of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis My dissertation, “Drug Violence, Fear of Crime and the Transformation of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis,” is an ethnography of how and why increased criminal violence and fear have…
Government Legitimacy, Social Solidarity, and American Homicide in Historical Perspective …in mature democracies to better understand and counter political violence and other forces that damage democratic norms and institutions, imperiling the safety of citizens. Read or download the report (PDF)…
