Violence in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

by Sophie Body-Gendrot

Book Overview

Sophie Body-Gendrot How much related are present and past violence? The answers are complex due to the limited knowledge scientists have gathered, even after spending a life-time studying this very enigmatic and most serious social phenomenon called violence. All authors agree that the present level of interpersonal violence cannot be sufficiently understood without taking the earlier long-term decrease into account. Ted Robert Gurr (1981, 1989) was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441925597
• ISBN13: 9781441925596
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"