This book
provides an integrative, systematic approach to the study of violence and
nonviolence in one volume. Building on his groundbreaking Integrating
Criminologies, Gregg Barak examines virtually all forms of violence - from
verbal abuse to genocide - using an organizational framework that treats all
of these expressions of violence as interpersonal, institutional, and
structural occurrences.
StopViolence is
pleased to be able to post several excerpts from this book:
When Reel Violence Captures Real Violence
(review of Bowling for Columbine and Bloody Sunday)
Altruistic
Killing (discussion of the Bob Rowe case)
Scenarios of Victim Recovery:
A Sexual Assault and Attempted Murder
Victim (A discussion of Susan Brison's Aftermath:
Violence and the Remaking of a Self)
In the context of recovery and nonviolence, Barak
addresses peace and conflict studies, legal rights, social justice, and
various nonviolent movements. Employing an interdisciplinary understanding of
violence and nonviolence as complex phenomena, Barak emphasizes the importance
of culture, media, sexuality, gender, and social structure in developing a
comprehensive theory of these two separated, but inseparable phenomena.
