Perspectives on Violence and Violent Death

✍ Scribed by Robert G. Stevenson; Gerry R. Cox (eds.)

Publisher: Baywood Publishing
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 359
Series: Death, value, and meaning
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Looks at the nature and types of violence, the causes of violence, and the emotional wake left by violent episodes. This title focuses on the need to better understand violence, both lethal and non-lethal, to become aware of the many forms of violence, and to learn how to survive in the aftermath of violent death.

✦ Table of Contents

Pt. I. Introduction, the nature of violence --
1. Good violence/bad violence : its impact on children and suggested responses / Robert G. Stevenson --
2. Violence in the family : spirituality/religion as culprit and comfort / Richard B. Gilbert --
3. Conflict and violence in the workplace : an existentialist analysis / Neil Thompson --
4. Violence and the dehumanization of victims in Auschwitz and beyond : remembering through literature / Gregory Paul Wegner --
5. Religious violence and weapons of mass destruction / Timothy Kullman --
pt. II. Encounters with violence --
6. Resisting the magnet : a study of South African children's engagements with neighborhood violence / Jenny Parkes --
7. Silent night, violent night : an encounter with unexpected violence / Carr Maher --
8. Hispanic families and mass casualties : the first 48 hours / Fernando Cabrera --
9. Grief and guilt in the military / Carr Maher --
pt. III. Empirical studies --
10. Characteristics of homicide : victimization across the life span / Kimberly A. Vogt --
11. Grief and attachment within the context of family violence / Kimberly A. Rapoza, Kathleen Malley-Morrison --
12. Bereavement following violent death : an assault on life and meaning / Joseph M. Currier, Jason M. Holland, Rachel A. Coleman, Robert A. Neimeyer --
13. Violence in our own backyard : September 11th revisited / Barbara Melamed --
pt. IV. Alternatives to violence/coping with violence --
14. Making and breaking cycles of violence / Colin Murray Parkes --
15. Coping with violent death : the role of spirituality / Gerry R. Cox --
16. From violence to peace : posthomicide memorials / Inge B. Corless, Phyllis R. Silverman --
17. Talk it out! Walk it out! Wait it out! Take ten : an intercultural approach to creating safer schools / Kim Overdyke, Jay Caponigro --
Appendix A. Violence : a statement of assumptions and principles (IWG) --
Appendix B. Summary of guidelines, protocols, and procedures --
Appendix C. Bibliography : perspectives on violence / Richard B. Gilbert.

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