The Effects of Violence on Communities

The Violence Matrix as a Tool for Advancing More Just Policies

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ID9685129
AuthorsBeth E Richie (corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume151
Issue1
Pages84-96
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDaedalus (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192
PublisherMIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/daed_a_01890
OpenAlexW4200115455
LanguageEN
Citations received5

In this essay, I illustrate how discussions of the effects of violence on communities are enhanced by the use of a critical framework that links various microvariables with macro-institutional processes. Drawing upon my work on the issue of violent victimization toward African American women and how conventional justice policies have failed to bring effective remedy in situations of extreme danger and degradation, I argue that a broader conceptual framework is required to fully understand the profound and persistent impact that violence has on individuals embedded in communities that are experiencing the most adverse social injustices. I use my work as a case in point to illustrate how complex community dynamics, ineffective institutional responses, and broader societal forces of systemic violence intersect to further the impact of individual victimization. In the end, I argue that understanding the impact of all forms of violence would be better served by a more intersectional and critical interdisciplinary framework

Conceptual framework · Criminology · Economic Justice · Economic system · Economics · Macro · Macro level · Political science · Social justice · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law

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