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While you’ll often hear people say that violence is never the answer, in some communities violence is viewed as a perfectly reasonable response to personal slights.
Violent crime causes untold harm and anger is known to fuel violence. But recent research suggests that the way anger and crime tie together in youth is a bit more complicated than expected.
If Dostoevsky insists that one cannot shy away from horror and tragedy, Tolstoy would contend that people must act upon what they see.
A career soldier and a careful scholar of the military profession, William Tecumseh Sherman knew that wars are part of human nature, and are unavoidably cruel and harsh.
In this special edition of ‘Don’t Call Me Resilient,’ we chat about how “the slap heard around the world” is part of a layered story of racism, sexism, power and performance.
Adverse childhood experiences like abuse, neglect and dysfunction at home may not seem like primarily medical problems, but they have significant and enduring impact on physical and mental health.
A trauma-informed approach to education can help educators acknowledge and address the adversities faced by Black and Indigenous students.
Despite seismic cultural shifts since the last movie, the 2022 version of Batman seems to be trotting out the same old tropes.
A new analysis of crime data shows that anti-Asian violence, targeting people of Asian descent and their property, rose sharply during the pandemic.
As the July 2021 unrest and looting graphically showed, crime and lawlessness can debilitate and destroy government efforts to facilitate and support economic growth.
I looked at the infamous Milgram experiment and seem to have made a shocking new discovery.
With school shootings in 2021 at the highest they’ve ever been, experts on the topic offer advice about what to do about it.
Gangs have changed in the decades since ‘West Side Story’ first came out – they are deadlier, and their demographics are different – as are the means law enforcement use to control them.
Disturbing online posts and written messages were purportedly left by Ethan Crumbley in the days running up to deadly school shooting.
Too often, corporal punishment breaks young people and brutalises them.
Thousands of cases of missing and murdered Native Americans remain unsolved. A scarcity of reliable data is only part of the problem, a tribal justice scholar explains.
The unanticipated popularity of the Korean show ‘Squid Game’ highlights our relationship to debt and capitalism, but the contradictions extend beyond the show itself.
Research shows how heat can have negative effects on emotional states, mental health conditions and aggressive behaviours.
We may not be attracted to movie violence as much as people think.
Top contributors
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Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor of Violence Prevention and Addiction Studies, Deakin University
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Professor of Sociology, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Co-Director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Gender and Childhood Sexuality, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
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Professor of History, The Open University
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
