Larry Ray offers a wide-ranging and integrated account of the many manifestations of violence in society. He examines violent behaviour and its meanings in contemporary culture and throughout history
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Introduction: what is violence? -- Theories of violence -- Origins of violence -- Elias and the civilizing process -- Violence and urban space -- Gender and violence -- Domestic violence -- Explaining homicide -- The politics of 'hate crime' -- Collective violence -- Modernity and genocide -- Violence and the visual