Violence and Nonviolence

Violence and Nonviolence: Pathways to Understanding is the first book to provide an integrative systematic approach to the study of violence and nonviolence in one volume. Eminent scholar and award-winning author Gregg Barak examines virtually all forms of violence—from verbal abuse to genocide—and treats all of these expressions of violence as interpersonal institutional and structural occurrences. In the context of recovery and nonviolence Barak addresses peace and conflict studies legal rights social justice and various nonviolent movements. Employing an interdisciplinary framework Barak emphasizes the importance of culture media sexuality gender and social structure in developing a comprehensive theory of these two separate but inseparable phenomena. This innovative and accessible volume includesFigures tables and illustrations that reinforce important concepts and relationshipsIntroduces a new original theory of reciprocal violence and nonviolenceNumerous case studies on violence and recovery throughout the bookChapter summaries and review questions to aid student comprehensionModels of nonviolence such as mutuality altruistic humanism positive peacemaking and resiliencyDesigned to be a core text for graduate and undergraduate courses on violence in criminology sociology criminal justice and social work departments Violence and Nonviolence is also an outstanding supplementary text for violence against women and criminal behavior courses. This book will transform the way students and readers think about violence nonviolence and the reciprocal relationship between the two.