Violence in Society Books


Practical Aspects of Rape Investigation: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Third Edition (Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations) Best Price: $39.90 This book is about as good as it gets. It covers all the bases an investigator should know...	Aggression and Violence: An Introductory Text Best Price: $144.77 This book does a wonderful job of syhthesizing very complicated material. The authors have...	Violence: A Contemporary Reader Best Price: $61.42 This book looks at violence in a wide variety of settings, showing readers that violence does...	Why We Watch: The Attractions of Violent Entertainment Best Price: $20.00 Why We Watch is the first book to offer a careful look at why we are drawn to depictions of...	Been a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men (Critical Perspectives in Criminology) Best Price: $16.24 In this groundbreaking work, Lois Presser investigates the life stories of men who have...



Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell Readers in Anthropology) Best Price: $39.37 Genocide: An Anthropological Reader helps to lay a foundation for a ground-breaking...	Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder Best Price: $23.99 A bit 'technical', this is an essential read. Knowledge is power. ANYONE who's ever been in an...	Inequality & Violence in the United States: Casualties of Capitalism Best Price: $17.80 Inequality and Violence in the United States is a very thorough and informative book that looks...	The Quest for Cosmic Justice Best Price: $3.22 Dr. Sowell examines the concept of "social justice" (or, on a larger scale,...	Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics Best Price: $31.36 Uncivil Disobedience examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of...



Inequality & Violence in the United States: Casualties of Capitalism Best Price: $17.80 Inequality and Violence in the United States is a very thorough and informative book that looks...	The Quest for Cosmic Justice Best Price: $3.22 Dr. Sowell examines the concept of "social justice" (or, on a larger scale,...	Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics Best Price: $31.36 Uncivil Disobedience examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of...	American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Best Price: $2.85 The authors have written a great book, which goes into extensive detail on the life of Timothy...	Family Abuse: Consequences, Theories, and Responses Best Price: $65.57

Youth Gangs in American Society Best Price: $10.00 This book is by far one of the most innovative and insightful books that I have read in some...	Casualties Of Community Disorder: Women's Careers In Violent Crime (Crime and Society Series) Best Price: $19.43 Unlike the outcry over street crime committed by males, concerns about women and violence have...	Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Best Price: $6.98 It's hard to surprise me nowadays with issues like the Jena 6, Hurricane Katrina versus Fema,...	Watch My Back Best Price: $11.79 Geoff Thompson is a martial arts expert. A 6th Dan at Karate and 1st Dan at Judo as well as...	Violence and Politics : Globalization's Paradox (New Political Science Reader) Best Price: $32.95 Violence and Politics points out a paradox of contemporary political violence: it appears to be...

Social Revolutions in the Modern World (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) Best Price: $26.99 In this collection of essays, Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning States and Social...	Death Work: Police, Trauma, and the Psychology of Survival Best Price: $27.42 Vincent Henry is a retired NYPD officer with over 20 years experience. His book - Death Work -...	Silent Victims: Hate Crimes Against Native Americans Best Price: $29.95 Hate crimes against Native Americans are a common occurrence, Barbara Perry reveals, although...	Violence in the Home: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Psychology) Best Price: $14.73 Violence in the home is one of the most damaging and widespread of social problems. It is an...	Archeology of Violence Best Price: $8.95 You guessed it: Pierre Clastres. Obscure on google searches (save Franko-anarchist webblogs),...

Rage of the Random Actor: Disarming Catastrophic Acts And Restoring Lives Best Price: $14.00 I already own Dan Korem's behavior profiling guide, "The Art of Profiling: Reading People...	From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States Best Price: $14.27 Maybe it is just me, or maybe something is lost in the translation for the exerpts reproduced in...	Sports Fan Violence in North America Best Price: $22.95 I am the author of this volume. It is my hope that readers use the information in the book to...	Collision of Wills: How Ambiguity about Social Rank Breeds Conflict Best Price: $13.46 Minor debts, derisive remarks, a fight over a parking space, butting in line—these are...	Collision of Wills: How Ambiguity about Social Rank Breeds Conflict Best Price: $13.46 Minor debts, derisive remarks, a fight over a parking space, butting in line—these are...

Raising Nonviolent Children In A Violent World Best Price: $4.41 While written from a Christian perspective, Dr. Obsatz's21universal priciples transcend the...	Resolving Conflict: A Practical Approach Best Price: $38.63 Written by an Australian conflict resolution academic and practitioner, this is the best overall...	Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys Vol. I (Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys) Best Price: $2.00 A must book for anyone who wants to understand why so many black boys and men seem to be...	How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate Best Price: $49.99 I highly recommend this book for anyone seeking to understand violent millennialism and wanting...	Conflict Resolution in the Schools: A Manual for Educators (Jossey Bass Education Series) Best Price: $23.00 More books like this one should be available to educators to teach this important skill of...

Natural Conflict Resolution Best Price: $3.85 Aggression and competition are customarily presented as the natural state of affairs in both...	Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present (Politics History & Culture) Best Price: $23.05 Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and...	Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma (Politics, History, Culture) Best Price: $16.52 In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in...	Soldiers Of God: White Supremacists and Their Holy War for America Best Price: $57.49 Soldiers of God is the only book, that I'm aware of, that fully explores the religious...	Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. Best Price: $23.01 Thomas Homer-Dixon's "Environment, Scarcity and Violence" offers a scholarly analysis...

Rape: The Misunderstood Crime: The Misunderstood Crime Best Price: $56.08 Rape--it is probably the most misunderstood of violent crimes. Only two to five percent of...	Comprehending Columbine Best Price: $21.11 This book attempts to deconstruct the events using scholarly approaches to remain as objective...	Opposing Viewpoints Series - Crime and Criminals (paperback edition) (Opposing Viewpoints Series) Best Price: $22.52 U.S. crime rates fell for most of the 1990s, but sociologists warn that these downward trends...	War Junkie: One Man's Addiction to the Worst Places on Earth Best Price: $26.50 Great book! I highly recommend this book. Jon was out here in Iraq with my unit filming a movie...	Anthropology of Violence and Conflict (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Best Price: $34.94 The "Anthropology of Violence" is a fine collection of case studies, as interoduced by...

Battered Wives Best Price: $7.89 Although this book is somewhat dated and things are better now than they were in the 1970s, it...	The Human Potential for Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions about War and Violence Best Price: $24.90 This book convincingly challenges assumptions about war and violence by drawing upon a vast...	Overcoming Childhood Trauma (Overcoming) Best Price: $11.46 Very good book. I have been through childhood trauma ver accurate read half the book and...	Terrorism As Crime: From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond (Alternative Criminology) Best Price: $14.71 The author gives the impression that the "right wing" has a monopoly on domestic...	Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina: The Gray Zone of State Power (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) Best Price: $16.99 Close to three hundred stores and supermarkets were looted during week-long food riots in...

Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means Best Price: $0.93 I read this a year ago, and can recall little about it. My point exactly. I have it listed...	Conflict: From Theory to Action (2nd Edition) Best Price: $20.00 Book is clinical. However a very good textbook w/ plenty of case studies. A must to have if...	Genocide: Modern Crimes Against Humanity Best Price: $25.54	Fighting Words: The Origins Of Religious Violence Best Price: $14.78 This is a great book if you are interested in knowing why does religion cause violence. Author...	The Politics of Gun Control Best Price: $2.99 A fine book for anyone interested in understanding how the NRA has hijacked the issue of gun...

Troubled Times: Violence and Warfare in the Past (War and Society) Best Price: $40.50 An excellent resource for the osteologist, archaeologist, or anyone studying violence in prehistory.	No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society Best Price: $15.00 In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the West's first...	Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China (Asia and the Pacific) Best Price: $26.09

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