ABSTRACT
In the book’s final chapter, I briefly go through a selection of additional areas of study in which themes from the preceding chapters converge. I describe Sara Uhnoo’s study of young people and their “moral work” on violence, and I describe Curtis Jackson-Jacobs’ study of young people who actively seek out fights in the course of wild nights out. I also discuss intoxication and violence, victim competition and violence, psychic disease and violence, and playfights as well as “blackening eyes” in youth detention homes. In a bit longer case description from my field studies of youth detention homes - “the event with the rumour” - I try to weave together the book’s four perspectives. The aim is to show how they can all be relevant in analyses, a well a how they are relevant for the involved people themselves, the “members” of a violent event.
