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Framing Excessive Violence: Discourse and Dynamics
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Description for Framing Excessive Violence: Discourse and Dynamics
Hardcover. This book explores the dynamics of excessive violence, using a broad range of interdisciplinary case studies. It highlights that excessive violence depends on various contingencies and is not always the outcome of rational decision making. The contributors also analyse the discursive framing of acts of excessive violence. Editor(s): Ziegler, Daniel J.; Gerster, Marco; Kramer, Steffen; Oliver, M. Num Pages: 263 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHB; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
This book explores the dynamics of excessive violence, using a broad range of interdisciplinary case studies. It highlights that excessive violence depends on various contingencies and is not always the outcome of rational decision making. The contributors also analyse the discursive framing of acts of excessive violence.
This book explores the dynamics of excessive violence, using a broad range of interdisciplinary case studies. It highlights that excessive violence depends on various contingencies and is not always the outcome of rational decision making. The contributors also analyse the discursive framing of acts of excessive violence.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
263
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137514424
SKU
V9781137514424
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Ref
99-15
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Jörn Ahrens, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany Werner Binder, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania, USA Marco Gerster, Konstanz University, Germany Bernhard Giesen, Konstanz University, Germany Michael Günter, Klinikum Stuttgart, Germany Jack Katz, University of California Los Angeles, USA Jan Klabbers, University of Helsinki, Finland Peter Klimczak, Brandenburg University of Technology, ... Read more
Reviews for Framing Excessive Violence: Discourse and Dynamics
“The essays of Framing Excessive Violence are timely, helping readers make sense of the (seemingly) unfamiliar violence of 2016. And the paradox that the volume identifies – that excessive violence transgresses social and moral codes and yet eventually becomes tamed by them – is provocative and worth further exploration.” (Jared Del Rosso, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, January, ... Read more