The Violent Society

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Rowman & Littlefield, 1972 - Počet stran: 223
This book and its theme were matters of great controversy in the early 1970s, and this is a serious criminological work for general distribution to inform those concerned with violence in American society.

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Social Theory and Homicide 1 Desperation and Aggression
13
2 The Plan of the Book
14
3 Some Dimensions of Violence
15
4 Defining Violence and Homicide
16
5 Restraints and Social Structuring
17
6 Goals Means and Opportunities
18
7 Subcultures of Violence and Other Approaches
20
Reciprocity and Integration
22
4 Common Threads
99
5 Low Tension in Social Systems
101
Suicide and the Social System 1 Suicide Rates Around the World
104
3 Geography and Migration
111
4 Age and Sex Differences
114
5 Race in Relation to Age and Sex
118
6 Variations by Prestige Groupings
119
7 Downward Mobility
121

9 A Role Formulation of Homicide
25
Homicide and the Social System 1 Homicide Rates in Literate Societies
28
2 NonLiterate Societies and Homicide
30
3 Geographical and Class Differences in the United States
31
4 Racial Variations
33
5 Variations by Sex and Age
36
6 Age Sex and Race in Relation to One Another
38
7 Victim and Offender
40
8 VictimPrecipitation
42
9 Weapons Places and Times
43
10 The Case of Louella Feary
44
Homicide and the Individual 1 The Inner Roles of the Individual
50
2 Frustration in the Early Lives of Homicidal Offenders
53
3 Role Models and High Tension
55
4 The Lack of Identity
58
5 Delusion and the Masochistic Impulse
59
6 The Case of Nathan OBrien
61
The Social Control of Homicide 1 The Absence of Prevention
67
2 The Labeling Process
68
3 Conviction
71
4 Imprisonment
73
5 Execution
75
6 Similarities Between Offenders and Agents of Control
77
7 The Social Uses of Homicide
79
8 Effective Controls
82
9 One Executioner
87
INWARD DIRECTED PERSONAL VIOLENCE SUICIDE
91
Theory and Suicide 1 Durkheim and Social Integration
93
2 Four Contemporary Theories of Suicide
94
3 Social Disorganization Downward Mobility and Loss
97
8 Motives Methods Places Times
123
Suicide the Individual and Social Control 1 Inner Role Systems
127
2 Loss of Love Objects
128
3 Identity
132
4 Reactionformation and Delusion
134
5 Homicide Followed by Suicide
136
6 Social Control and Selffulfilling Prophecy
138
7 The Social Uses of Suicide
142
8 Some Effective Controls
144
MASS VIOLENCE RACE RIOTS
149
Race Riots the Social System and the Individual 1 The Nature of Collective Behavior
151
2 Rioting Defined
152
3 Two Theories of Mass Violence
153
4 High Tension as a Source of Riots
155
5 Some Dimensions of Racial Rioting in the United States
156
6 Social Characteristics of Rioters
160
7 Precipitating Factors
161
8 Major Social Forces Behind Racial Rioting
163
9 Black Militancy
167
10 BlackWhite Interaction and Identity
170
The Social Control of Race Riots 1 Abortive Social Control and Predictability
175
2 The Police Role
176
3 The Courts
180
4 The Social Uses of Rioting
182
5 Some Preventive Measures
185
6 Further Preventive Measures
188
Postscript
193
Notes
196
Index
220
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