Violent Street Groups and Organized Crime in Russia …violence have subsided. Eruptions of uncontrolled violence are now an obstacle to the gangs’ business aims, and the gangs try to limit fights and conflict on their territory. They have…
Violence and the Pandemic: Urgent Questions for Research …future violence trends are the topic of Violence and the Pandemic: Urgent Questions for Research by Manuel Eisner (University of Cambridge and University of Zurich) and Amy Nivette (Utrecht University)….
Intimate Violence in Community Context …intimate homicide rates and self-reports of nonlethal partner violence at the individual level. However, collective efficacy exerts a more powerful regulatory effect on nonlethal violence in neighborhoods where the tolerance…
Drug Violence, Fear of Crime, and the Transformation of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis My dissertation, “Drug Violence, Fear of Crime and the Transformation of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis,” is an ethnography of how and why increased criminal violence and fear have…
Knowledge Against Violence Speaker Series The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Knowledge Against Violence speaker series provides timely research and analysis for an informed audience from leading violence experts. Guest speakers, drawn from the Foundation’s network…
The Environmental Making of Sendero Luminoso: Drought, Famine, and Revolution in the Peruvian Andes, 1983–1986 …region. As seasons of harvest failures and political violence collided and made a socioenvironmental catastrophe, thousands of villagers came to experience the intertwined wrath of nature and the militarization of…
Translations of Antisemitism: The History of Jews and Violence in Indonesia I conceived my research project in May, 1998, in the aftermath of the fall of President Soeharto in Indonesia. That month saw horrendous violence committed against the Chinese community in…
“Violence and the Law at War”: Dr. Craig Jones Dr. Craig Jones Dr. Craig Jones is the author of The War Lawyers and a lecturer in political geography in the School of Geography, Sociology, and Politics at Newcastle University. “Violence and…
Can the State Interrupt the Vicious Cycle of Gendered Violence that it Helped to Create? Evidence from Guatemala …communities. Absent broader efforts to address structural inequalities, the impacts of [violence against women and girls] reforms are unevenly experienced, with those most vulnerable to violence and most in need…
Violent Territorialities and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in West Kalimantan Indonesia …the book will document and analyze the forms, contexts, and representations of violence, and how violence has reshaped access to and control over the agrarian environment. The violence cannot be…
