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1 online resource (410 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Preface; Part I Introduction and Overview; 1. Perspectives on Collective Violence; Part II Theoretical Issues; 2. Interpreting Collective Violence: An Argument for the Importance of Social Structure; 3. Issueless Riots; 4. A Critical Note on Conceptions of Collective Behavior; 5. Two Critics in Search of a Bias: A Response to Currie and Skolnick; 6. Agonistics-Rituals of Conflict; 7. The Legitimation of Violence |
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8. The Controversy Surrounding Analyses of Collective Violence: Some Methodological NotesPart III Comparative Perspectives; 9. Patterns in International Warfare, 1816-1965; 10. Sources of Rebellion in Western Societies : Some Quantitative Evidence; 11. Conflict without Violence and Violence without Conflict in a Mexican Mestizo Village; 12. Violence in East African Tribal Societies; 13. Violence in the New Guinea Highlands; 14. Violence in Burmese History : A Psychocultural Explanation; 15. The Place of Aggression in Social Interaction |
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Part IV Dimensions of Collective Violence in the United States16. The Paradox of American Violence: A Historical Appraisal; 17. The Psychology of Political Activity; 18. Rebellion and Repression and the Vietnam War; 19. Cultural Value Orientations and Student Protest; 20. Campus Protests and the Vietnam War; 21. Campus Conflict as Formative Influence; 22. Local Political Leadership and Popular Discontent in the Ghetto; 23. The Emergence of Muted Violence in Crowd Behavior: A Case Study of an Almost Race Riot; 24. Police Violence and Its Public Support |
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25. The Police and Collective Violence in Contemporary AmericaPart V In Search of Alternatives; 26. The Nonviolent Alternative: Research Strategy and Preliminary Findings; 27. The Usefulness of Commission Studies of Collective Violence; Indexes |
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Print version record |
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Violence -- United States
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Violence
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wolfgang, Marvin E
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Short, James F., Jr
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| ISBN |
9781351527743 |
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1351527746 |
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