Edwin A Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 103222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwin A Cook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwin A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | City, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7608-8702 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Collective Discussion
Violence is an enduring global challenge: it can occur in the context of interpersonal relationships, as well as interstate and intercommunal conflict. The synchronous focus on the global and the social in international political sociology might naturally transcend some paradigmatic divisions over what constitutes violence and at which level of analysis it might be studied. However, there has been little analysis of the complex concept of violenc…
Definitions of non-intimate partner and family-related femicide/feminicide
The killing of women and girls outside of intimate or domestic relationships - or non-intimate partner and family-related (non-IPF) femicide/feminicide - often triggers significant public and media attention. However, there has been comparatively little attention to non-IPF femicide/feminicide in research and policy, including how it is defined. To address this, we conducted a scoping review to identify current definitions of non-IPF femicide/fem…
Non-intimate femicide in England and Wales
This article addresses ‘non-intimate femicide’ (NIF), referring to the killing of women and girls outside of family and intimate relationships. Despite substantial proportions of femicides involving non-intimate circumstances, there is a dearth of evidence, research and policy on NIF. Using Homicide Index data for England and Wales (2002–2022), this article provides original insight into the victim, perpetrator and incident characteristics in NIF…
Violence reduction in a changing European urban context
Violence continues to be a concern for policymakers and communities, notably so in urban contexts in which socio-demographic change, retrenched social support and evolving forms of exclusion affect its distribution and intensity. Drawing from a comparative qualitative study in European cities, we analyse the narratives and explanations offered by key stakeholders, civic and policy actors working at the interface of violence prevention and urban c…
Conflating the map with the territory
Homicide is a global burden that is unequal in risk and distribution. However, evidence required for prevention is currently fragmented across different systems of knowledge production, creating challenges in the form of missing data. Viewed through the sociology of quantification and knowledge production, this article provides methodological and ethical reflections on conducting a global systematic review of sex/gender-disaggregated homicide dat…
The Reality, Relevance, and Reckoning of Black College Women’s Friendships Across Race
Indirect victims of violence
An extensive body of evidence shows the impact of being the direct victim of a serious assault. However, much less is known about the impact on the family and close relatives of victims, who may be considered indirect victims. Based on analyses of the 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, a face-to-face, cross-sectional probability-sample survey of 7519 adults aged 16 and over in England, this article estimates what proportion of the populatio…
Parallels in Practice
Purpose Within the context of the big data society, new systems of data collection on domestic violence and abuse (DVA) have emerged. One such system is Domestic Violence Fatality Review (DVFR) which captures the various dimensions of gender, violence, and abuse required to form an evidence base for prevention. However, to date, there has been limited dialogue between practitioners and researchers about the ‘doing’ of DVFRs. Method As DVFR system…
Re-imagining what counts as femicide
This Special Subsection on Re-imagining what counts as femicide brings together five original articles which, from different perspectives, seek to push, challenge, and redefine what counts as femicide. The contributions offered here excavate the conceptual issues of what, who, and where femicide 'counts'. In order to do so, the articles engage with epistemological and methodological questions regarding how different bodies of evidence on femicide…
Bereaved Family ‘Involvement’ in (Prisoner) Death Investigations
A duty to investigate deaths in detention is enshrined within international legislation including Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). A core purpose of these investigations, following UK case law, is that bereaved families ‘have the satisfaction of knowing that lessons learned [...] may save the lives of others.’ We highlight the striking absence of evidence illustrating the ‘satisfaction’ of bereaved families, utilising …
The Religion Clauses
Professors Gillman and Chemerinsky contend that the religion clauses are most accurately interpreted when they support separationism. Separationism, as they define it, requires a separation of church and state, meaning “the government should be secular; the place for religion is in people’s lives, their homes, and their places of worship” (p. xi). In support of their claim, they provide a synopsis of historical issues, political power, and views …
Gendered objects and gendered spaces
The knife is a relatively mundane, domestic and easily accessible household item. At the same time, it is the most commonly used weapon in intimate partner homicide. Recently however the knife has become an object of fear and panic in England and Wales when used in public by mostly young men on other young men. This aim of this article is to offer some reflections on the conundrums posed by these two observations. Here the 'knife' is considered t…
Navigating Family Involvement in Domestic Violence Fatality Review
Purpose Family involvement is a key element of Domestic Homicide Review (DHR), the form of Domestic Violence Fatality Review (DVFR) found in England and Wales. Family involvement is framed as having dual purposes: first, as a benefit to DHRs, enabling a fuller picture of victims’ experiences; second, as a benefit to families themselves, notably as a therapeutic or cathartic opportunity. However, these dual purposes have been little considered. Th…
Comprehensive or Comprehensible Experience? A Case Study of Religion and Traumatic Bereavement
The first half of this article provides a brief overview of two respective projects concerning traumatic bereavement, in which religious faith appeared to feature amid a constellation of significant coping and sense-making mechanisms for survivors. After presenting some illustrative examples of the kind of data produced in the course of our research, the second half of the article develops a retrospectively critical appraisal of our data collecti…
Motherhood, moral authority and the charismatic matriarch in the aftermath of lethal violence
Images of maternal suffering are an evocative and powerful means of communication in a world where the private grief of victims has increasingly become subject to commodification and public consumption. This article looks at the influence of bereaved mothers as symbols of respect, peace and dignity in the aftermath of violence, and as a result their persuasive presence in family activism. Drawing upon two case studies, this article explores the i…
Geographic Variation in Statin Use for Complex Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients
BACKGROUND: Despite strong evidence to designate statin use for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) as "effective care," observational studies show that many patients with CVD do not receive statins. This suggests that statin prescribing decisions for complex CVD patients are preference sensitive. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to evaluate local area variation in statin prescribing for subsets of complex patients after acu…
Hospital Episodes and Physician Visits
BACKGROUND: Health services use typically is examined using either self-reports or administrative data, but the concordance between the 2 is not well established. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the concordance of hospital and physician utilization data from self-reports and claims data, and identified factors associated with disagreement. METHODS: We performed a secondary analysis on linked observational and administrative data. A national sample of 431…
Women, Work, and Political Attitudes
Cross-sectional comparisons of employed women and housewives have found significant differences in political opinions and political involvement, as well as differences on psychological variables such as self-esteem. This paper applies a quasi-experimental design to the 1972-1976 National Election Study panel, comparing employed women, housewives, and women who entered the labor force between 1972 and 1976, in order to examine the competing hypoth…
General/Theoretical
Cultural/Ethnology
General/Theoretical
Abnegating Ethical and Intellectual Responsibilities
Blood and Semen
Bloodshed and Vengeance in the Papuan Mountains
Ethnology
Women, Work, and Political Attitudes
Cross-sectional comparisons of employed women and housewives have found significant differences in political opinions and political involvement, as well as differences on psychological variables such as self-esteem. This paper applies a quasi-experimental design to the 1972-1976 National Election Study panel, comparing employed women, housewives, and women who entered the labor force between 1972 and 1976, in order to examine the competing hypoth…
Social Analysis of Graffiti
GRAFFITI, AS AN ASPECT OF CULTURE, can be used as an unobtrusive measure to reveal patterns of customs and attitudes of a society. Observing graffiti will reveal changes in customs and attitudes. Through studying graffiti, Lindsay was able to reconstruct much about life in ancient Pompeii.2 To date, many projects have used the thematic content of graffiti to posit certain motivational hypotheses about the individuals and the societal attitudes th…
Navigating Family Involvement in Domestic Violence Fatality Review
Purpose Family involvement is a key element of Domestic Homicide Review (DHR), the form of Domestic Violence Fatality Review (DVFR) found in England and Wales. Family involvement is framed as having dual purposes: first, as a benefit to DHRs, enabling a fuller picture of victims’ experiences; second, as a benefit to families themselves, notably as a therapeutic or cathartic opportunity. However, these dual purposes have been little considered. Th…
Bereaved Family ‘Involvement’ in (Prisoner) Death Investigations
A duty to investigate deaths in detention is enshrined within international legislation including Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). A core purpose of these investigations, following UK case law, is that bereaved families ‘have the satisfaction of knowing that lessons learned [...] may save the lives of others.’ We highlight the striking absence of evidence illustrating the ‘satisfaction’ of bereaved families, utilising …
Gendered objects and gendered spaces
The knife is a relatively mundane, domestic and easily accessible household item. At the same time, it is the most commonly used weapon in intimate partner homicide. Recently however the knife has become an object of fear and panic in England and Wales when used in public by mostly young men on other young men. This aim of this article is to offer some reflections on the conundrums posed by these two observations. Here the 'knife' is considered t…
On the Conversion of Non-Agnates into Agnates among the Manga, Jimi River, Western Highlands District, New Guinea
This paper examines an aspect of a New Guinea kinship terminological system in which "genealogical amnesia" has sometimes been cited as causing non-agnates to be re-classified as agnates. I maintain that for the Manga certain non-agnatic kintypes in specific contexts are nominally converted into agnatic kinsmen by consistent application of the kinship terminology. I also imply that the problem of non-agnates in the patrilineage is in part an epis…
Parallels in Practice
Purpose Within the context of the big data society, new systems of data collection on domestic violence and abuse (DVA) have emerged. One such system is Domestic Violence Fatality Review (DVFR) which captures the various dimensions of gender, violence, and abuse required to form an evidence base for prevention. However, to date, there has been limited dialogue between practitioners and researchers about the ‘doing’ of DVFRs. Method As DVFR system…
Motherhood, moral authority and the charismatic matriarch in the aftermath of lethal violence
Images of maternal suffering are an evocative and powerful means of communication in a world where the private grief of victims has increasingly become subject to commodification and public consumption. This article looks at the influence of bereaved mothers as symbols of respect, peace and dignity in the aftermath of violence, and as a result their persuasive presence in family activism. Drawing upon two case studies, this article explores the i…
Blood and Semen
Conflating the map with the territory
Homicide is a global burden that is unequal in risk and distribution. However, evidence required for prevention is currently fragmented across different systems of knowledge production, creating challenges in the form of missing data. Viewed through the sociology of quantification and knowledge production, this article provides methodological and ethical reflections on conducting a global systematic review of sex/gender-disaggregated homicide dat…
A New Mogollon Structure
In 1958 and 1959, excavations were carried out at the Turkey Creek Ruin, a Pueblo III period site some three miles from the field school at Point of Pines. Also excavated was an earlier Mogollon village found under the pueblo. One of the structures in this village, a type not previously recorded for the Mogollon area, and its associated artifacts are described. Comparisons with other areas indicate a possible relationship with similar structures …
Knowing the Gururumba
Some Recent Anthropological Research Trends in Melanesia
Linguistics
Gods, Ghosts and Men in Melanesia
On the Conversion of Non-Agnates into Agnates among the Manga, Jimi River, Western Highlands District, New Guinea
This paper examines an aspect of a New Guinea kinship terminological system in which "genealogical amnesia" has sometimes been cited as causing non-agnates to be re-classified as agnates. I maintain that for the Manga certain non-agnatic kintypes in specific contexts are nominally converted into agnatic kinsmen by consistent application of the kinship terminology. I also imply that the problem of non-agnates in the patrilineage is in part an epis…
Social Analysis of Graffiti
GRAFFITI, AS AN ASPECT OF CULTURE, can be used as an unobtrusive measure to reveal patterns of customs and attitudes of a society. Observing graffiti will reveal changes in customs and attitudes. Through studying graffiti, Lindsay was able to reconstruct much about life in ancient Pompeii.2 To date, many projects have used the thematic content of graffiti to posit certain motivational hypotheses about the individuals and the societal attitudes th…
Adoption in Eastern Oceania
The Chain Shall Remain Unbroken
Bloodshed and Vengeance in the Papuan Mountains
Ethnology
General/Theoretical
Abnegating Ethical and Intellectual Responsibilities
Blood and Semen
General/Theoretical
Cultural/Ethnology
Women, Work, and Political Attitudes
Cross-sectional comparisons of employed women and housewives have found significant differences in political opinions and political involvement, as well as differences on psychological variables such as self-esteem. This paper applies a quasi-experimental design to the 1972-1976 National Election Study panel, comparing employed women, housewives, and women who entered the labor force between 1972 and 1976, in order to examine the competing hypoth…
Hospital Episodes and Physician Visits
BACKGROUND: Health services use typically is examined using either self-reports or administrative data, but the concordance between the 2 is not well established. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the concordance of hospital and physician utilization data from self-reports and claims data, and identified factors associated with disagreement. METHODS: We performed a secondary analysis on linked observational and administrative data. A national sample of 431…
Geographic Variation in Statin Use for Complex Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients
BACKGROUND: Despite strong evidence to designate statin use for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) as "effective care," observational studies show that many patients with CVD do not receive statins. This suggests that statin prescribing decisions for complex CVD patients are preference sensitive. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to evaluate local area variation in statin prescribing for subsets of complex patients after acu…
Motherhood, moral authority and the charismatic matriarch in the aftermath of lethal violence
Images of maternal suffering are an evocative and powerful means of communication in a world where the private grief of victims has increasingly become subject to commodification and public consumption. This article looks at the influence of bereaved mothers as symbols of respect, peace and dignity in the aftermath of violence, and as a result their persuasive presence in family activism. Drawing upon two case studies, this article explores the i…
Navigating Family Involvement in Domestic Violence Fatality Review
Purpose Family involvement is a key element of Domestic Homicide Review (DHR), the form of Domestic Violence Fatality Review (DVFR) found in England and Wales. Family involvement is framed as having dual purposes: first, as a benefit to DHRs, enabling a fuller picture of victims’ experiences; second, as a benefit to families themselves, notably as a therapeutic or cathartic opportunity. However, these dual purposes have been little considered. Th…
Comprehensive or Comprehensible Experience? A Case Study of Religion and Traumatic Bereavement
The first half of this article provides a brief overview of two respective projects concerning traumatic bereavement, in which religious faith appeared to feature amid a constellation of significant coping and sense-making mechanisms for survivors. After presenting some illustrative examples of the kind of data produced in the course of our research, the second half of the article develops a retrospectively critical appraisal of our data collecti…
Bereaved Family ‘Involvement’ in (Prisoner) Death Investigations
A duty to investigate deaths in detention is enshrined within international legislation including Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). A core purpose of these investigations, following UK case law, is that bereaved families ‘have the satisfaction of knowing that lessons learned [...] may save the lives of others.’ We highlight the striking absence of evidence illustrating the ‘satisfaction’ of bereaved families, utilising …
The Religion Clauses
Professors Gillman and Chemerinsky contend that the religion clauses are most accurately interpreted when they support separationism. Separationism, as they define it, requires a separation of church and state, meaning “the government should be secular; the place for religion is in people’s lives, their homes, and their places of worship” (p. xi). In support of their claim, they provide a synopsis of historical issues, political power, and views …
Gendered objects and gendered spaces
The knife is a relatively mundane, domestic and easily accessible household item. At the same time, it is the most commonly used weapon in intimate partner homicide. Recently however the knife has become an object of fear and panic in England and Wales when used in public by mostly young men on other young men. This aim of this article is to offer some reflections on the conundrums posed by these two observations. Here the 'knife' is considered t…
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