ABSTRACT
Violence is a serious public health problem. The number of violent deaths tells only part of the story, and many more survive violence and are left with permanent physical and emotional scars. Violence also erodes communities by reducing productivity, decreasing property values, and disrupting social services.
In recent years, scholars have broadened their definitions of violence beyond the realm of interpersonal harms such as murder, armed robbery, and male-to-female physical and sexual assaults in intimate relationships, to include behaviors often ignored by the criminal justice system, such as human rights violations, racism, psychological abuse, state terrorism, environmental violations, and war. Guided by this broader definition of violence, this handbook offers state of the art research in the field and brings together international experts to discuss empirical, theoretical, and policy issues.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|3 pages
Gathering and analyzing violence data
part II|3 pages
New ways of thinking theoretically about violence
chapter 8|12 pages
Thinking theoretically about image-based sexual abuse
part III|2 pages
Select topics in violence studies
chapter 22|13 pages
The impact of exposure to domestic violence on children and youth
chapter 25|13 pages
An alternative view of animal abuse
chapter 31|13 pages
Research on human trafficking
part IV|3 pages
New policy directions