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| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| INTRODUCTION - Secrets of Violence and Nonviolence | |
| Decreasing Violence and Increasing Nonviolence | |
| Feelings and Structures | |
| Private and Public Shame | |
| A Germ Theory of Violence and Nonviolence | |
| Violent and Nonviolent Rhetoric, Youth at Risk, and Implications for Peacemaking | |
| Violence Against Youth Is More Important Than Violence by Youth | |
| Organization of the Book | |
| References | |
| PART I: TYPES OF VIOLENCE | |
| Chapter One: Violence in Perspective | |
| Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Violence: An Alternative Perspective | |
| Violence as an Integral Part of American Life | |
| American Violence in Historical Perspective | |
| American Violence in Contemporary Perspective | |
| American Violence in Comparative Perspective | |
| A Reciprocal Approach to Studying Violence | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Review Questions | |
| Chapter Two: Interpersonal Violence | |
| Box 2.1 Harrassment and Silence | |
| Homicide | |
| Box 2.2 Serial Killer | |
| Box 2.3 Retaliatory Bombing | |
| Box 2.4 Homosexual Panic Leading to Murder | |
| Box 2.5 Rape and Homicide | |
| Box 2.6 Situated Transactions | |
| Box 2.7 Altruisitic Killings | |
| Box 2.8 Motherhood and Mental Illness | |
| Juvenile Victimization | |
| Box 2.9 Homosexual Juvenile Homicide | |
| Box 2.10 College Murder | |
| Box 2.11 High School Homicide | |
| Box 2.12 The Smiling Gunman | |
| Physical and Sexual Child Abuse | |
| Box 2.13 Rapist Returns | |
| Rape | |
| Box 2.14 Elder Rape and Murder | |
| Stalking | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Review Questions | |
| Chapter Three: Institutional Violence | |
| Box 3.1 Rampage in Central Park | |
| Box 3.2 The Hamburg Riot, 1876 | |
| Supremacy (2000) | |
| Box 3.3 The Birmingham Church Bombing, 1963 | |
| Family Violence | |
| Box 3.4 "Silence Ending About Abuse in Gay Relationships" | |
| Childhood Maltreatment | |
| School Violence | |
| Box 3.5 Youth Sports and Violence | |
| Gang Violence | |
| Box 3.6 Do or Die | |
| Police and Penal Violence | |
| Box 3.7 Police Torture | |
| Box 3.8 The Rampart Scandal | |
| Box 3.9 New Jersey Turnpike Shootings | |
| Box 3.10 Private Youth Prisons | |
| Box 3.11 Danger on Death Row | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Review Questions | |
| Chapter Four: Structural Violence | |
| Box 4.1 Child Slave Labor | |
| Postcolonial Violence | |
| Box 4.2 Genocide in the Americas | |
| Corporate Violence | |
| Box 4.3 The Tobacco Industry | |
| Box 4.4 The ValuJet Crash | |
| Box 4.5 The Auto Industry | |
| Underclass Violence | |
| Box 4.6 Hate Crimes Against the Homeless | |
| Terrorist Violence | |
| Institutional-Structural Violence | |
| Box 4.7 The War on Kids | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Review Questions | |
| PART II: PATHWAYS TO VIOLENCE | |
| Chapter Five: Explanations of Violence | |
| Ad Hoc Explanations: General and Family Violence | |
| Life-Course Models of Human Behavior: Causation, Time, and Violence | |
| On the Reciprocity of Violent and Nonviolent Pathways | |
| A Reciprocal Theory of Violence | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Review Questions | |
| Chapter Six: Media and Violence | |
| Mass Media, Columbine, and the Middle East | |
| Box 6.1 A Dialogue on Media and Violence | |
| Box 6.2 Tania Modleski's Tale | |
| America's Fascination With Mediated Violence | |
| Violence and Media Context: The Direct and Indirect Effects | |
| Mass Media: Production, Distortion, and Consumption | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Review Questions | |
| Chapter Seven: Sexuality and Violence | |
| Philosophizing About Sexuality | |
| Nature, Nurture, and Human Evolution | |
| On Aggression and Nonaggression | |
| Marking the Sexualities of Difference and Hierarchy | |
| Box 7.1 The Dialectics of Sexuality and the New Pornography | |
| Box 7.2 Sexuality, Androgyny, and Sadomasochism | |
| Sexual Difference, Gender Identity, and Violence | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Review Questions | |
| PART III: PATHWAYS TO NONVIOLENCE | |
| Chapter Eight: Recovering From Violence | |
| A Reciprocal Approach to Violence Recovery | |
| Box 8.1 Battered Women, Welfare, Poverty, Reciprocal Violence, and Recovery | |
| Interpersonal Recovery | |
| Institutional Recovery | |
| Box 8.2 Films, Recovery, and Vigilantism | |
| Structural Recovery | |
| Box 8.3 Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Energy, and Recovery | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Review Questions | |
| Chapter Nine: Models of Nonviolence | |
| On the Paradigms of Adversarialism and Mutualism | |
| A Brief History of Nonviolent Struggle (1900-2000) | |
| Models of Nonviolence | |
| Positive Peacemaking | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Review Questions | |
| Chapter Ten: Policies of Nonviolence | |
| A Summary Review of Victimization and the Pathways to Violence | |
| A Review and Critique of the Adversarial War on Violence | |
| Mutualism and the Struggle for Nonviolence | |
| Nonviolent Policies That Prevent Antisocial Pathways to Violence | |
| Nonviolent Policies That Build Pathways to Positive Peace, Human Rights, and Social Justice | |
| Transformative Justice and Pathways to Violence and Nonviolence | |
| References | |
| Review Questions | |
| Index | |
| About the Author |
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