Violence

Violence: Thinking without Banisters eBooks & eLearning

Posted by interes at Sept. 20, 2014

We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can’t escape representations of actual or fictional violence - another murder, another killing spree in a high school or movie theatre, another action movie filled with images of violence.

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"Social and Economic Costs of Violence" by ed. Deepali M. Patel and Rachel M. Taylor eBooks & eLearning

Posted by exLib at June 29, 2012

"Social and Economic Costs of Violence" by ed. Deepali M. Patel and Rachel M. Taylor
Workshop Summary. Forum on Global Violence Prevention, Institute Of Medicine
NAS Press | 2012 | ISBN: 0309220246 9780309220248 | 193 pages | PDF | 5 MB

The book examines the successes and challenges of calculating direct and indirect costs of violence, as well as the potential cost-effectiveness of intervention.

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Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence (Repost) eBooks & eLearning

Posted by step778 at March 12, 2013

Claire M. Renzetti, Jeffrey L. Edleson, "Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence"
2008 | pages: 984 | ISBN: 1412918006 | PDF | 11 mb

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Why We Are Losing the War on Gun Violence in the United States eBooks & eLearning

Posted by AvaxGenius at April 13, 2021

This edited collection of data and perspectives takes a fresh approach to gun violence prevention by addressing the question, “why are we losing the war on gun violence in America?” Although successes and failures in the prevention of gun violence are examined, it is a war we are losing, due to restrictions on research funding, entrenched historical perspectives, structural violence, and perhaps differing priorities or views on what is right or wrong.

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