Institutional Violence

Bibliographic Data

ID19909559
AuthorsDeane Curtin, Robert Litke
Year1999
Publication date1999-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueInstitutional Violence (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004459021
OpenAlexW4235199296
ISBN9789004459021
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Violence can be physical and psychological. It can characterize personal actions, forms of group activity, and abiding social and political policy. This book includes all of these aspects within its focus on institutional forms of violence. Institution is also a broad category, ranging from formal arrangements such as the military, the criminal code, the death penalty and prison system, to more amorphous but systemic situations indicated by parenting, poverty, sexism, work, and racism. Violence is as complex as the human beings who resort to it; its institutional forms pervade our relational lives. We are all participants in it as victims and perpetrators. The chapters in this book were written in the hope that violence can be explicated, even if not fully understood, and that such clarification can help us in devising less violent forms of living, even if it does not lead to its total abolition. The studies bring new aspects of violence to light and offer a number of suggestions for its remedy

Criminology · Institution · Institutional racism · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Prison · Racism · Sociology · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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