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I couldn't even imagine that they would kill us
Harrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities killed, injured, and disappeared scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime.
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In my mother's house
In May 2009, the Sri Lankan army overwhelmed the last stronghold of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam—better known as the Tamil Tigers—officially bringing an end to nearly three decades of civil war. Although the war has ended, the place of minorities in Sri Lanka remains uncertain, not least ...
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Incels in the italian manosphere
Incel and red pill online groups are expanding rapidly in Italy, where narratives of self-victimization and violence against women propagate among young men facing economic hardship. This book provides a timely, comprehensive analysis of the ‘negative solidarity’ rooted in the economic and social...
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Japanese girl at the siege of changchun
An unforgettable memoir of the horrors suffered by a Japanese family trapped in Changchun, China, at the end of WW2.
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
This special issue deals with the phenomenon of violence in the post-Soviet space. It examines both political and legal discourses and practices of internal and external violence, broadly conceived, simultaneously aspiring to situate them in the broader literature on political violence and ethnic...
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Killing the elites
Through a rich historical ethnography of a massacre in the small town of Jérémie, Haiti, Jean-Philippe Belleau offers a new account of the workings of the François “Papa Doc” Duvalier regime and an innovative analysis of anti-elite violence.
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Law and order leviathan
How American-style capitalism creates a coercive state unlike any otherHow could America, that storied land of liberty, be home to mass incarceration, police killings, and racialized criminal justice? In Law and Order Leviathan, David Garland explains how America’s racialized political economy gi...
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Love from manenberg
A moving portrait of the people in Manenberg, South AfricaLove from Manenberg looks at life in Manenberg, South Africa, in particular the experiences of women and their children. The work makes room for complex narratives pushed aside by the media and shows the ways families look to the future an...
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Man up
The revelatory and urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the West—from an internationally recognized extremism expert and media commentatorWhat two things do most mass shooters, terrorists, or violent extremists have in common? M...
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Marked for erasure
Exploring the intersections of necropolitics, gender, and mediatised violence, Marked for Erasure reveals how marginalised communities are marked for erasure through state power and media narratives
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Merchants of the right
An eye-opening portrait of the gun sellers who navigated the social turmoil leading up to the January 6 Capitol attackGun sellers sell more than just guns. They also sell politics. Merchants of the Right sheds light on the unparalleled surge in gun purchasing during one of the most dire moments i...
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Narrativity and violence
Based on several case studies, this book explores typical problems in the study of violence through survivors' narratives, and possible ways of dealing with them.
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Not your usual suspect
An important contribution to the criminological, gerontological, feminist and elder abuse fields, Not Your Usual Suspect expands existing research to consider the behaviour and drivers of older offenders, addressing the increasingly important issue of how the needs of this group can be addressed ...
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Oath keepers
Sam Jackson takes readers inside the world of the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, examining its extensive online presence to discover how it builds support for its goals and actions. He explores how Oath Keepers draws on core American values and pivotal historical moment...
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Our enemies in blue
An incriminating investigation into the domestic army that protects and serves the status quo.
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Participatory research on child maltreatment with children and adult survivors
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Enriching ongoing debates about participatory research in the field of child maltreatment, this book highlights the advantages that participation as a human right can bring to the community of researchers and help...
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Performing public confessions
It is widely thought that confessions from perpetrators of state violence promote accountability, reconciliation, and justice. Yeşim Yaprak Yıldız offers a challenge to this view through a critical examination of perpetrators’ narratives, analyzing them as performances that shape public perceptio...
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Phenomena of power
Phenomena of Power delves into the sociohistorical manifestations of power and breaks through to its general structures. Popitz distinguishes the forms of the enforcement of power as well as of its stabilization and institutionalization, clearly articulating how the mechanisms of power work and h...
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Police against the movement
A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century laterPolice Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that...
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Police responses to islamist violent extremism and terrorism
Written by a police professional with 40 years’ experience, this book examines the evolution of counter-terrorism policy and state narratives on the causes and drivers of Islamist violence and terrorism and issues a direct challenge to the reality they impose on British Musim communities, as well...
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Policing the second amendment
An urgent look at the relationship between guns, the police, and raceThe United States is steeped in guns, gun violence—and gun debates. As arguments rage on, one issue has largely been overlooked—Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred policies, but t...
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Portraits of violence
A graphic introduction to the most important radical critiques of violence, from Fanon to Chomsky, Foucault to Sontag.
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Post-ottoman coexistence
Examines the peaceful co-existence of religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire. Investigates the reasons behind the breakdown of tolerance and the legacy of division from ethno-nationalist conflict post-empire. A discussion of both historical and contemporary practices of...
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Practical psychology for policing
As contemporary policing becomes ever more complex, so knowledge of practical psychology becomes ever more important in everyday policing encounters, situations and contexts. This book suggests how new ways of applying psychological knowledge and research can be of benefit in a range of policing ...
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Programs to reduce teen dating violence and sexual assault
Arlene Weisz and Beverly Black interview practitioners from more than fifty dating violence and sexual assault programs across the United States to provide a unique resource for effective teen dating violence prevention. Enhancing existing research with the shared wisdom of the nation's preventio...
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Rape myths
Rape Myths: Understanding, Assessing, and Preventing is ideal for anyone wishing to know more about their theoretical background, prevalence, assessment, and functions. Outlining their meaning and foundations, this book also considers their conceptualisation and the construct of rape myth accepta...
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Re-defining terrorism
Offering original insights into counter-radicalisation’s extensive effects, Itoiz Rodrigo Jusué offers a complete and innovative examination of the development of counter-radicalisation discourses and policies.
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Screening torture
Before 9/11, films addressing torture outside of the horror/slasher genre depicted the practice in a variety of forms. In most cases, torture was cast as the act of a desperate and depraved individual, and the viewer was more likely to identify with the victim rather than the torturer. Since the ...
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Sex and international tribunals
Before the twenty-first century, there was little legal precedent for the prosecution of sexual violence as a war crime. Now, international tribunals have the potential to help make sense of political violence against both men and women; they have the power to uphold victims' claims and to convic...
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Sex crimes
This book is the first to investigate all aspects of sexual crimes and the policy and management initiatives developed to address them from a transnational, global perspective
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Shock to the system
How violent events and autocratic parties trigger democratic changeHow do democracies emerge? Shock to the System presents a novel theory of democratization that focuses on how events like coups, wars, and elections disrupt autocratic regimes and trigger democratic change. Employing the broadest ...
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Sovereign citizen ideology
A much-needed introduction to Sovereign Citizen ideology in book form, Christine Sarteschi spotlights the prevalence and scope of sovereign citizen involvement in the January 6th US Capitol insurrection.
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States of dispossession
Traces the violence of the protracted conflict in the Kurdish region of Turkey through the lens of dispossessionThe military conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish Armed Forces has endured over the course of the past three decades. Since 1984, the conflict has claimed...
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Storying the immobilities of gender violence in the uk and mexico
This book is a unique image-based bilingual (English and Spanish) book of textual and visual narratives of gender-based violence (GBV) in the UK and Mexico, framed with a critical commentary that sets these stories in the context of GBV in both countries.
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Street rebellion
In a style that bridges the divide between academia and activism, Street Rebellion develops a broader and more accurate understanding of how people struggle for liberation. We are living in a time of uprisings that routinely involve physical confrontation—burning vehicles, barricades, vandalism, ...
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Teaching and making peace in every relationship
Dating and domestic violence are two the most frequently occurring forms of gender-based violence, both in the United States and globally. This book is intended to help address misconceptions about dating and domestic violence, thereby helping to inform readers who can and should be involved in p...
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Technologies of trauma
Technologies re-abstract trauma in complex ways. Approaching trauma in its cultural forms, this book considers how technologies of trauma in the guise of cultural artefacts presents moral and ethical challenges from the vernacular of storytelling and witnessing to livestreaming of terror today.
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Terrorist minds
Drawing on groundbreaking personal interviews as well as decades of research from psychologists and others, John Horgan traces the pathways that lead people into violent extremism and explores what happens to them as their involvement deepens.
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The civil war and the summer of 2020
Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years...
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The cultural dimensions of peacebuilding
The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding details aspects of cultures, including language, films, journalism, political economics, museums, education, parenting, gender, artistic activism, and spirituality, which can contribute to either more violent societies or more peaceful ones. Solutions-orie...
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The danger imperative
With unprecedented access to three police departments and drawing on more than 100 interviews and 1,000 hours on patrol, The Danger Imperative provides vital insight into how police culture shapes officers’ perception and practice of violence.
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The extreme gone mainstream
How clothing brands coded with racist and nationalist symbols are bringing extremism into the German mainstreamFar right politics and extremist violence are on the rise across Europe, prompting scholars and policymakers to question why extremism has become so appealing to so many people. Cynthia ...
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The healing journey
The Healing Journey offers a startling analysis of intimate partner abuse and its negative effects on women’s earnings, education and vocational training as well as in the labour market itself. Victims of abuse often suffer from chronic physical and mental health issues, which impede their partic...
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The heat and the fury
“A landmark work on perhaps the essential question of our time.”—David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable EarthAs a journalist on the climate security beat, Peter Schwartzstein has been chased by kidnappers, badly beaten, detained by police, and told, in no uncertain terms, that he was no...
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The impact of global drug policy on women
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Examining the impact of drug criminalisation on a previously overlooked demographic, this book argues that women are disproportionately affected by a flawed policy approach.
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The killing season
The definitive account of one of the twentieth century’s most brutal, yet least examined, episodes of genocide and detentionThe Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century—the shocking antileftis...
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The language of terrorists
How can we tell the difference between online bluster and terrorist threats? Julia Ebner—an internationally acclaimed expert on online radicalization—shows how language patterns reveal the potential for political violence.
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The management of hate
Since German reunification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past. The Management of Hate, Nitzan Shoshan’s riv...
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