1st Edition
Perspectives on Violence and Violent Death
This book examines violence. It looks at the nature and types of violence, the causes of violence, and the emotional wake left by violent episodes. In the twentieth century, the world experienced two world wars and countless other wars. Many millions died violent deaths from murder, death squads, purges, riots, revolutions, ethnic cleansing, rape, robbery, domestic violence, suicide, gang violence, terrorist acts, genocide, and in many other ways. As we entered the twenty-first century, we experienced 9/11, the Red Lake School deaths, suicide bombers, and more mass death brought about by the actions of governments, revolutionaries, terrorists, and still more wars. 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 are the focus of "Perspectives on Violence and Violent Death."
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I Introduction—The Nature of Violence
Chapter 1
Good Violence/Bad Violence:Its Impact on Children and Suggested Responses Robert G. Stevenson
Chapter 2
Violence in the Family: Spirituality/Religion as Culprit and Comfort Reverend Richard B. Gilbert
Chapter 3
Conflict and Violence Within the Workplace: An Existentialist Analysis Neil Thompson
Chapter 4
Violence and the Dehumanization of Victims in Auschwitz and Beyond: Remembering Through Literature Gregory Paul Wegner
Chapter 5
Religious Violence and Weapons of Mass Destruction Timothy Kullman
PART II Encounters with Violence
Chapter 6
Resisting the Magnet: A Study of South African Children's Engagements with Neighborhood Violence Jenny Parkes
Chapter 7
Silent Night, Violent Night: An Encounter With Unexpected Violence Carr Maher
Chapter 8
Hispanic Families and Mass Casualties: The First 48 Hours Fernando Cabrera
Chapter 9
Grief and Guilt in the Military Carr Maher
PART III Empirical Studies
Chapter 10
Characteristics of Homicide: Victimization Across the Life Span Kimberly A. Vogt
Chapter 11
Grief and Attachment Within the Context of Family Violence Kimberly A. Rapoza and Kathleen Malley-Morrison
Chapter 12
Bereavement Following Violent Death: An Assault on Life and Meaning Joseph M. Currier, Jason M. Holland, Rachel A. Coleman, and Robert A. Neimeyer
Chapter 13
Violence in Our Own Backyard: September 11th Revisited Barbara Melamed
PART IV Alternatives to Violence/Coping with Violence
Chapter 14
Making and Breaking Cycles of Violence Colin Murray Parkes
Chapter 15
Coping with Violent Death: The Role of Spirituality Gerry R. Cox
Chapter 16
From Violence to Peace: Posthomicide Memorials Inge Corless and Phyllis R. Silverman
Chapter 17
Talk it Out! Walk it Out! Wait it Out! Take Ten: An Intercultural Approach to Creating Safer Schools Kim Overdyke and Jay Caponigro
Appendix A Violence: A Statement of Assumptions and Principles (IWG)
Appendix B Summary of Guidelines, Protocols, and Procedures
Appendix C Bibliography Dick Gilbert
Contributors
Index
Biography
Robert Stevenson, Gerry Cox
