HFG Pembroke College Research Fellow …violence. Selected by Pembroke College, the three-year award focuses on the causes, manifestations, and control of violence in the present world. Priority is given to candidates who make a compelling…
Private Gun Ownership in Modern China, 1912–1949 This dissertation examines private gun ownership and its sociocultural and political implications in modern China from 1860 to 1949, a period characterized by foreign invasion, constant military conflicts, and political…
“There Are Clearly Spaces Where Law Enforcement Does Not Belong”: A Conversation with Tracie Keesee …people are getting hurt, people are getting victimized. What’s happening now is that there is a real conversation about alternative ways to respond. Take domestic violence. When I became an…
“Why Have Homicide Rates Gone up Since 2015? A Historical Perspective”: Dr. Randolph Roth …that focuses on the degree to which modern and early modern societies have been successful at nation building. As he suggests, the fundamental requisites for low levels of violence are…
The Carjacker’s Perspective: A Qualitative Study of Urban Violence With the exception of homicide, perhaps no offense is more symbolic of contemporary urban violence than carjacking. Carjacking, the taking of a motor vehicle by force or threat of force,…
Gangs, Violence, and the Redivision of Space in Chicago …rates of violence have been skeptically greeted by criminologists. However, no plausible explanation for persisting high rates of homicide in some cities and very low rates in others has been…
Torture, Taxes, and the Colonial State in Madras, c. 1800–1858 …nonstate responses to revenue violence are examined in a chapter on missionaries, which questions their popular image as humanitarian reformers. Finally, the adjudications of cases of revenue violence are looked…
The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakstan …both in Kazakhstan and in the West. My book, The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan, brings this largely unknown story to light, examining two interrelated questions:…
Serotonin and Impulsive Aggression: Not So Fast This article appeared in The Biology of Aggression, the Spring 1999 edition of The HFG Review, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation publication that examined topics of violence in depth. The…
Criminal Justice Expert Greg Berman Named Inaugural Guggenheim Distinguished Fellow of Practice …recognizes a leading practitioner in one of the many fields that contend with issues of violence—including government, multilateral institutions, civil-society organizations, and journalism—to support a project examining a contemporary violence…
