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Research Handbook on Violent Crime and Society

Edited by: Wendy C. Regoeczi, Terance D. Miethe

ISBN13: 9781035317851
To be Published: September 2025
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £270.00



This comprehensive Handbook examines the various forms of violence that occur within and across societies. It explores the multiple psychological, sociological, and environmental causes underlying violence as well as the nature of its distribution across different social groups, geographical areas and time periods.

Leading experts synthesize existing literature on violent crime from a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective, outlining the risk factors linked to the onset and persistence of violent behaviour. They identify the victimization of vulnerable subpopulations, such as sexual and gender diverse individuals, indigenous communities and older adults. With detailed case studies including firearm violence in the United States, emerging forms of cyberviolence and cyberhate and an analysis of the global use of capital punishment, this Handbook illustrates the multiple contexts in which violence occurs. It discusses the best practices for the intervention and prevention of violence in and across societies and critically investigates institutional responses to the issue.

Students and scholars of criminology, social policy, violent crime and responses to violence will greatly benefit from this informative Handbook. It is also an essential resource for practitioners and policymakers who are seeking effective solutions to reduce and prevent violence.

Subjects:
Criminology
Contents:
PART I INTRODUCTION
1. Violent crime and society: An overview 2
Wendy C. Regoeczi and Terance D. Miethe
2. Data sources for studying violence over place and time 13
Terance D. Miethe, Christopher A. Forepaugh and Timothy C. Hart

PART II COLLECTIVE FORMS OF VIOLENCE
3. The symphony of disorder: The anatomy of crowd violence and future challenges 34
Tom van Ham
4. Bias violence 48
Jeff Gruenewald, Brynn Schuetter and Taylor June
5. Memorializing war crimes and how we remember to forget: The Vietnam War, collective memory and America’s forever wars 63
John Hagan and Joachim J. Savelsberg
6. Corporate violence 84
Jana Macfarlane Horn and Steve Tombs

PART III VIOLENCE AGAINST VULNERABLE SUBPOPULATIONS IN SOCIETY
7. Juvenile violence 100
Kathleen M. Heide
8. Violence against older adults: Elder abuse and beyond 122
Lynn A. Addington
9. Intimate partner violence 135
Magaly L. García-Senlle and Manuel Martín-Fernándex
10. Child-parent violence 155
Hannah Sedlacek
11. Sexual violence 170
Patrick Lussier, Elisabeth St-Pierre and Nadine Deslauriers-Varin
12. Human trafficking and violent crime: Understanding the extent, drivers, consequences and how to respond 189