Institutional Violence /

Violence can be physical and psychological. It can characterize personal actions, forms of group activity, and abiding social and political policy. This book includes all of these aspects within its focus on institutional forms of violence. Institution is also a broad category, ranging from formal a...

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Main Authors: Curtin, Deane (Author), Litke, Robert (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1999.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 88.

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Call Number: HM1116

Table of Contents:
  • Joseph C. KUNKEL: Editorial Foreword. Deane CURTIN and Robert LITKE: Preface. Acknowledgements
  • SECTION I CULTURAL FORMS OF VIOLENCE. Introduction
  • ONE Steven LEE: Is Poverty Violence?
  • TWO William C. GAY: Linguistic Violence
  • THREE Natalie DANDEKAR: Compromised Childhoods and Social Violence
  • FOUR Stephen NATHANSON: The Death Penalty as a Peace Issue
  • FIVE Mar PETER-RAOUL and Sherrie APPLE: Mothers in Prison: Institutional Violence, Human Values, and Healing
  • SIX Robert SESSIONS: Work and Peacemaking
  • SECTION II INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE. Introduction
  • SEVEN Robert LITKE: Fundamentalism, Oppression, and Violence
  • EIGHT Jerald RICHARDS: Ideological Intolerance: Causes, Consequences, and Alternatives
  • NINE Judith L. PRESLER: Genocide and Moral Philosophy
  • TEN Eddy SOUFFRANT: International Intervention: Shell in Nigeria
  • SECTION III FEMINISM AND INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE. Introduction
  • ELEVEN Sally J. SCHOLZ: The Challenge of Systemic Oppression: The Dangerous Divorce of Civil and Domestic Spheres
  • TWELVE James P. STERBA: Feminist Justice and Sexual Harassment
  • THIRTEEN Amy IHLAN: Feminism and Firearms
  • SECTION IV RACISM AND SYSTEMIC PREJUDICE. Introduction
  • FOURTEEN Laura DUHAN KAPLAN: Devaluing Others to Enhance Our Self-Esteem: A Moral Phenomenology of Racism
  • FIFTEEN Paul C. TAYLOR: Context and Color-Confrontation: Cress Theory and the Necessity of Racism
  • SIXTEEN Paula J. SMITHKA: The Limits of Tolerance
  • SEVENTEEN Larry UDELL: Racism and Prejudice
  • EIGHTEEN Robert GINSBERG: Institutional Violence as Systemic Evil
  • SECTION V ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLENCE. Introduction
  • NINETEEN Michael Allen FOX: Ecofeminism and the Dismantling of Institutional Violence
  • TWENTY Judith A. BOSS: Treading on Harrowed Ground: The Violence of Agriculture
  • SECTION VI VIOLENCE AND THE MILITARY. Introduction
  • TWENTY-ONE John KULTGEN: Managing Violence under Military Professionalization
  • TWENTY-TWO Gail M. PRESBEY: The Armed Forces Caught in a Web: Both Victims and Perpetrators of Violence
  • TWENTY-THREE David E. JOHNSON: Ethical Education in the Military: Controlling the Institution of Violence
  • SECTION VII THINKING NONVIOLENTLY. Introduction
  • TWENTY-FOUR Joseph C. KUNKEL: Power, Public Authority, and Nonviolence
  • TWENTY-FIVE Ron HIRSCHBEIN: A World Without Enemies (Bush's Brush with Morality)
  • TWENTY-SIX Andrew NORMAN: Epistemological Violence
  • TWENTY-SEVEN Glen T. MARTIN: A Buddhist Response to Institutional Violence
  • Reference Bibliography
  • About the Authors
  • Index.