“Rising Violent Crime in Mexico” Panel …a co-author of Legacies of Resistance: Mobilization Against Organized Crime in Mexico, and is an Associate Professor at the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona….
The Polarization Project …negative views of each other. Threats against public officials are on the rise. A number of high-profile issues—the Israel-Hamas war, abortion, the 2024 presidential race—are inflaming passions and exposing deep…
‘There Are Very Few Democracies That Are as Polarized as We Are Today’: A Conversation with Jennifer McCoy …The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, about how the American political system encourages polarization, the way that elite political rhetoric influences the behavior of the general public, and whether both parties…
Victimhood in a Time of Crisis: Muslims and the Riots of 2020 in New Delhi, India …crises. Some respondents who faced physical violence and had long medical recoveries continue to face difficulties. Victimhood in Public Sites: Law and Media: Urdu-language media emphasize losses and suffering of…
“Tensions Are Very High”: Ahead of Côte d’Ivoire’s Controversial Presidential Election, Peace and Reconciliation Remain Unfinished …investigate crimes in a public forum, and establish a collective truth about what occurred during the conflict. The offering of amnesty by South Africa’s truth commission, which was mediated by…
Fear, Violence, and Restraint: Dynamics of Historical Change in the Tunisian Revolution …hypotheses illuminate negotiators’ motivations, but fail to theorize how actors form a convergent view of their respective strengths, which is necessary to avoid conflict. In postbreakdown moments, public events—particularly mobilization…
Intimate Violence in Community Context …the 1990 Decennial Census together with the 1994–95 Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods Community Survey, the 1994–95 Chicago Homicide Data, and the 1995–97 Chicago Health and Social Life…
Characteristics and Determinants of Global Homicide Crime Waves, 1946 to 1998 …task even more complex. In this research project, we used World Health Organization records to collect the most comprehensive set of annual homicide victimization data that has ever been assembled….
The Association of Polymorphisms in Genes affecting Monoamine Neurotransmission with Aggressive Behavior in Schizophrenic Violent Individuals Violence remains an important sociobiological problem, and is reported to affect approximately 3.7% of the population each year. In the mentally ill, the prevalence of violent behavior is higher that…
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa …the agency of substances and what I am calling the dialectics of health and harm implicit in the category muthi. Substances with agency, however, are not the only sources of…
