Control of Violence (eBook, PDF)

Historical and International Perspectives on Violence in Modern Societies
Redaktion: Heitmeyer, Wilhelm; Kirschner, Andrea; Malthaner, Stefan; Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard

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Produktbeschreibung

Modern societies are increasingly confronted with forms of violence that appear unpredictable and uncontrollable. Are the existing control regimes such as police, state surveillance institutions, and legal systems able to effectively contain phenomena such as school shootings, terrorism, or violence in fragile states, and what would help them become more effective? What is the relationship between state rule and self-control in limiting violence? Taking an historically and internationally comparative perspective, the contributors to this innovative book examine these violent phenomena as well as the preconditions and mechanisms of their control. Taking into consideration the fundamentally ambivalent character of control, they explore how institutions and strategies of control retroact on and thus re-shape societies. Moreover, they address general aspects of violence control in modern societies such as the concept of individual self-control, the impact of changing social institutions and the role of religion. The contributions to this volume explore violence on the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of social organization, creating a cohesive theoretical framework for understanding violence on each of these levels. Control of Violence in Modern Societies will be of great interest to researchers studying violence, particularly to those studying the phenomenon in a global context, be it from a criminological, a sociological or from a public health perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer New York
• Seitenzahl: 622
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441903839
• Artikelnr.: 37346412

Autorenporträt

Wilhelm Heitmeyer (Dr. phil.) is Professor of Socialization and Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence at Bielefeld University. His research interests concentrate on violence, social disintegration, right-wing extremism, and ethnic-cultural conflicts. His publications include International Handbook of Violence Research (co-edited with John Hagan); Rechtsextremistische Orientierungen bei Jugendlichen [ Right-Wing Extremism Among Young People ] (1987); Gewalt [ Violence ] (1995); Bedrohte Stadtgesellschaften [ Urban Societies Under Threat ] (co-edited with Reimund Anhut) (2000). He is Editor-in Chief of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence (with D. Massey et al.). He is organizer of the international research group "Control of Violence" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University (with Heinz Gerhard-Haupt/ Bielefeld, Florence). Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (Dr. phil.) is Professor of Social History at Bielefeld University and Head of the department of history and civilization at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His work focuses on social History and political History of Modern Europe, Methodology of Comparative History. His current research projects encompass History of Political Violence in 19th and 20th Century Europe, History of Consumption in 19th and 20th Century Europe, History of Social Movements and Classes: The First of May in Europe after 1945, Comparative History of European Nationalism: Nation and Religion in 19th and 20th Century. Recent publications include Neue Politikgeschichte [ New political history ](with Ute Frevert, eds.) (2005); Exklusion und Partizipation [ Exclusion and particpiation ] (with C. Gusy, Eds.); Terrorismus in der Bundesrepublik : Medien, Staat und Subkulturen in den 1970er Jahren [ Terrorism in the Federal Republic ofGermany: Media, state, and subcultures ] (with K. Weinhauer and J. Requate, Eds.) (2006). He is organizer of the international research group "Control of Violence" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University (with Wilhelm Heitmeyer/ Bielefeld).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Theoretical and analytical framework

2. Control and loss of control in an historical perspective

Policining youth protests and juvenile delinquency in Germany from the 1950s until 1980s

Anarchist terrorism in imperial Germany and third Republic France

Deescalation by Communication? Dealing with Left-Wing Terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s

Ethnic riots in situations of loss of control: regime change, civil war and revolution as opportunity structures for anti-Jewish violence in 19-20th century Europe

Control of violence by gun-control. Concepts and activities in the German Empire 1871 - 1914

Loss of Control over Small-Group Clandestine Violence: The Case of German Terrorism in the Long Twentieth-Century

Making war and crafting peace in contemporary Africa
The neglected significance of skill formation in control of violence

Violence control beyond the state? The case of DR Congo

"You can't be donated power": Altruistic Intervention, Political Violence, and Post-War Reconstruction - the role of 'external' actors in the control of violence

3. Multidisciplinary perspectives on violence

Nature of Violence

The modernity of violence: decivilizing processes

Giving an end to violence

Emerging evidence for the theory of low-status compensation and its relationship to violence

4. The Micro-Level: School-Shootings

School Shootings: Perceived losses of control - attempts to regain control

School violence and its control in the USA and Germany since the 1950s

School shootings: Specific problems of control

Prevention, Intervention and Coping with School Shootings (reprint)

5. The Meso-Level: Terrorism

Local roots and transnationalism of 'Islamist'terrorism

Out of control? Explaining terrorist violence from a Jihadi perspective

Transformations of terrorism. The performative character of political violence.

The radical milieu: pathways to joining terrorist groups

The Grotesque Body and Mystical Conquest: The Case of Shi'i Cult of Martyrdom

6. The Macro Level: Violence in fragile states

Modern Barbarism and the propects of civilization. Eliasion themes in an African context

Controlling violence in the failed state: An examination of the UN's disarmament, demobilization and reintegration

Using fuel to put out a fire? Violence control in the context of 'fragile' states - the case of vigilantism in Nigeria

Oil in the Niger Delta - militancy and the challenge of violence control

Climate change and conflict

7. Mechanisms and "tools" of control

8. Case studies on the mechanism of control

Religions actors and their potential of containing violence

Impact of religion on prevention and control of violence

Religious communities as violent actors

Self-Control and the Management of Violence

Conscience as an element of self-control

Opportunities for de-radicalizing radical milieus

Learning terrorism behind individual and collective disengagement

Violence, control and the body

Cross-National Homicide Trends in the Latter Decades of the 20th Century: Losses and Gains in Institutional Control?

9. Conclusion

Loss of control? In what cases and under what circumstances.