Barbara H. Chasin

Inequality & Violence in the United States

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

While mass shootings make headlines, the more routine effects of corporate and government decisions on our well-being are downplayed. This book analyzes how economic and political inequalities lead to forms of violence that routinely cause harm.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Third Edition
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 754g
• ISBN-13: 9781666913545
• ISBN-10: 1666913545
• Artikelnr.: 65695926

Autorenporträt

Barbara H. Chasin is professor emerita, Montclair State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Chapter 1. Defining Violence - Types of Violence
Chapter 2. Explaining American Violence - Five Approaches
Chapter 3. Inequality in the United States
Chapter 4. Social Class and Organizational Power
Chapter 5. Political Inequality - Corporations and Government
Chapter 6. Organizational and Structural Violence Against Consumers and
Communities
Chapter 7. Health Issues as Structural and Organizational Violence
Chapter 8. Violence Against Workers and the Unemployed
Chapter 9. Criminal Violence: Interpersonal, Organizational, and Structural
Chapter 10. Experiencing Violence - Racial and Ethnic
Chapter 11. Gender Violence
Chapter 12. Militarism and Violence - Who Benefits?
Chapter 13. Militarism - Who Loses?
Chapter 14. Militarism - Structural and Interpersonal Violence
Chapter 15. Reducing the Casualties