Perspectives on Violence and Violent Death

<p>This book examines violence. It looks at the nature and types of violence the causes of violence and the emotional wake left by violent episodes. In the twentieth century the world experienced two world wars and countless other wars. Many millions died violent deaths from murder death squads purges riots revolutions ethnic cleansing rape robbery domestic violence suicide gang violence terrorist acts genocide and in many other ways. As we entered the twenty-first century we experienced 9/11 the Red Lake School deaths suicide bombers and more mass death brought about by the actions of governments revolutionaries terrorists and still more wars. The need to better understand violence both lethal and non-lethal to become aware of the many forms of violence and to learn how to survive in the aftermath of violent death are the focus of Perspectives on Violence and Violent Death.</p>