“We’re Losing a Sense of Accountability”: A Conversation with Richard Aborn …I think the expression that we have a “problem” with violence is really an understatement. I think we are now getting close to a crisis of violence. It is obviously…
Violence Against Women and Social Changes in Postcommunist Societies …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…
The Diffusion of Lethal and Nonlethal Violence in Gang Networks …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…
Violent Profits: The Political Economy of Electoral Violence …by scholars and policymakers is whether or how the nature of political-business relationships might affect the outbreak or targeting of election violence. When are business actors targeted by election violence?…
Killing Campaigns: The Origins and Dynamics of Mass Violence in Africa …level was not correlated to electoral violence; that incumbents committed the majority of electoral violence; and that the dynamics of prevote violence differed from postvote violence. Those findings were published…
Operation Fly Trap: Police Suppression and Gang Violence …series of ongoing life struggles. Non-gang violence during this period rose in equal measure to the decline in gang violence, leaving the overall number of violent crimes in the targeted…
Unearthing Sexual Violence in the Congo Free State and its Contemporary Significance …violence. While sexual violence was used as punishment or as extortion, it mainly functioned as a display of colonial power. I, therefore, argue sexual violence is not a direct result…
