In Memoriam: Richard Rosenfeld …Justice and National Science Foundation advisory and research groups—will already be known to most associates of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. And those who had the good fortune to…
HFG Senior Communications Manager …be both a first-rate seasoned thinker and an energetic and experienced doer. The SCM will require a high degree of familiarity with and comprehension of social science and policy research…
Programs …contribution to the study of violence. Candidates are drawn from the disciplines of human, political, and social sciences, international relations, and aligned fields. The fellow is resident at, and admitted…
Translations of Antisemitism: The History of Jews and Violence in Indonesia …occupation. In post-Soeharto Indonesia, there has been a curious revival of antisemitism, an effort to equate political “reformasi” and Zionism. Indonesian colonial Jewry cut across official colonial categories, with Dutch,…
The World Crisis: 1635–1665 In the mid-seventeenth century, a series of violent economic, social, intellectual and political upheavals afflicted most regions of this planet. Although not the only known global catastrophe, it was the…
Kidnapping in Colombia …was practiced in rural areas by some late “bandoleros” of the political violence period in the 1950s. On the other hand, urban kidnapping of foreigners—diplomats and CEOs—was imported from groups…
Hitler’s Prisons: Prisons and Penal Policies in Germany, 1900–1945 …institutions played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich, incarcerating many hundreds of thousands of men and women: common criminals, political opponents, “racial aliens,” and other social…
Violence Against Women and Social Changes in Postcommunist Societies …survey findings showed that global economic and political changes and war produce micro level changes, i.e., changes in everyday life and gender, generational, and ethnic structures/identities. Privatization and a market…
White Terror: Paramilitary Violence in Interwar Central Europe …this field and to test the wider methodological implications of my hypothesis for our understanding of political violence more generally. I undertook several extended trips to various Central European archives…
Violent Street Groups and Organized Crime in Russia …group transformation and change in the economic and political climate? To answer these questions, I, together with my Russian collaborators, conducted in-depth interviews and focus groups with young people who…
