Violence : situation, speciality, politics and storytelling

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Routledge ()

Corporate Author:

Routledge ()

Language:

English

Published:

London : Routledge, 2022.

Edition:

1st Edition

Series:

Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

Subjects:

Kryminologia

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Description:

This book considers how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined, and explored by social researchers and thinkers. It does not provide a final answer to the question of what violence is or how it should be explained (or prevented), and instead offers a variety of useful ways of thinking about and theorising the phenomenon, mainly from a sociological standpoint. It outlines four ways of understanding violence: • Violence as situation: the tension that exists between category-driven and situational explanations. • Violence as speciality: the study of particularly violent actors, and how they may be understood by reference to childhood histories, technologies, institutions, culture, class, and gender. • Violence as politics: political violence and violent politics. • Violence as storytelling: representations of violence from a narrative perspective. Concluding with reflections on possible convergences between the four approaches and new directions for research, this book offers a unique and experimental approach to discussing and reconstructing the concept of violence. It is essential reading for criminologists, sociologists, and philosophers alike.

Table of Contents:

Imagine … (s. 1-9) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263579-1
Violence as situation (s. 10-36) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263579-2
Violence as specialty (s. 37-59) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263579-3
Violence as politics (s. 60-79) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263579-4
Violence as storytelling (s. 80-98) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263579-5
Scraps and side-tracks (s. 99-118) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263579-6