Violence

Situation, Speciality, Politics, and Storytelling
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-20448-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 186 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

This book considers how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined, and explored by social researchers and thinkers. It does not provide a final answer to the question of what violence is or how it should be explained (or prevented), and instead offers a variety of useful ways of thinking about and theorising the phenomenon, mainly from a sociological standpoint.

It outlines four ways of understanding violence:

• Violence as situation: the tension that exists between category-driven and situational explanations.

• Violence as speciality: the study of particularly violent actors, and how they may be understood by reference to childhood histories, technologies, institutions, culture, class, and gender.

• Violence as politics: political violence and violent politics.

• Violence as storytelling: representations of violence from a narrative perspective.

Concluding with reflections on possible convergences between the four approaches and new directions for research, this book offers a unique and experimental approach to discussing and reconstructing the concept of violence. It is essential reading for criminologists, sociologists, and philosophers alike.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wästerfors, David

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Imagine… 1.Violence as situation 2.Violence as specialty 3.Violence as politics 4.Violence as storytelling 5.Scraps and side-tracks

Über Autor(innen)

David Wästerfors is Professor of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden.