Characteristics and Determinants of Global Homicide Crime Waves, 1946 to 1998 Difficulties in comparing political and legal systems have long hampered our efforts to estimate cross-national violent crime rates. Adding the requirement that such studies examine trends over time makes the…
Violent Territorialities and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in West Kalimantan Indonesia …on the landscape itself. I will discuss why political and communal violence have occurred in some historical moments and not others, and how violence has erased some claims from the…
Striving in the Path of God: Discursive Traditions on Jihad and the Cult of Martyrdom …to specific historical and political circumstances. Among these circumstances are the continuing border skirmishes with the Byzantines in the Umayyad period (661–750), the Crusades and the Mongol attacks from the…
The Militarization of Nuer and Dinka Community Life: A Comparative Field Study of the Transformative Impact of Sudan’s Unresolved War Our original research focused on the militarization of Nuer and Dinka community life, with special attention devoted to the role of ethnic conflict triggered off by the 1991 splitting of…
By Right of War: The Discipline and Practice of International Law in Imperial Russia, 1868–1917 …these normative principles shaped actual policy. It takes the form of military and political history, examining the Russian army in three cases of military occupation: Bulgaria and Anatolia in 1877–78;…
Criminal Retaliation: A Qualitative Study of Social Control Beyond the Law Despite its preeminent role in regulating disputes between and among street criminals, retaliation has received scant attention from criminological researchers. Existing studies explore retaliation only tangentially, with little or no…
Ethnic Violence vs. Imperial Segregations: Multinational Criminality in the Russian Imperial City as a Space of Conflict and Cooperation …be unaware of the competing projects of political or national mobilization); the middle ground (a peculiar mechanism of creative mutual misunderstanding ); and criminal violence. In particular, ethnically marked criminal violence…
The Nazi Concentration Camps …of the concentration camps in the final years before the outbreak of World War II were probably not political prisoners or Jews but social outsiders pursued as “criminals” and “asocials.”…
Drug Violence, Fear of Crime, and the Transformation of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis …unique contribution to the fields of urban and political sociology by revealing this new pattern of exacerbated urban inequality raising new challenges for urban inclusion and democracy in Latin America….
“There is Still No Justice Here!”: Theorizing Women’s Movements’ Influence on Postwar African States Enforcement of Gender-Based Violence Laws …not sufficient for their institutionalization. Instead, strong pressure from domestic actors, particularly women’s organizations, and favorable political and institutional conditions were needed for rapid institutionalization. Furthermore, in both countries, officers…
