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Chapter 11

References from the book:

Bowling, B. (1998) Violent Racism: Victimisation, Policing and Social Context. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
This is a detailed analysis of official documents and historical origins of racist violence. Bowling uses a case study to analyze the language of white supremacy and the experience of racist victimization.

Collins, R. (2008) Violence—A Macro-Sociological Theory. Oxford: Princeton University Press.
This is a major study of the microdynamics of aggression and violence with detailed case studies that aims to develop a general theory of violence as a situational process. His core thesis is that violence is difficult and its enactment has to overcome deep inhibitions—the interaction processes of which are the main focus of the book.

Jackman, M.R. (2002) ‘Violence in social life’ Annual Review of Sociology 28: 387–415.
A good overview and critique of current sociological theories of violence and develops a programme for a new approach.

Messerschmidt, J. (1993) Masculinities and Crime. Rowman & Littlefield.
This has become a key text in theorizing the relationship between masculinities and crime and uses the theory of ‘hegemonic masculinities’.

Scheff, T.J. (2000) ‘Shame and the social bond: A sociological theory’ Sociological Theory 18 (1): 84–99.
Develops a theory of the links between social solidarity, emotions, anger, and violence. Links with work inspired by John Braithwaite on shame and reintegrative shaming.

Stanko, E.A. (ed) (2003) The Meanings of Violence. London: Routledge.
A recent collection of chapters based on projects in the ESRC’s Violence Research Programme. Offers new insights and data on violent crime.

Further references:

Archer, J. (ed.), Male Violence, London: Routledge.

Barratt, E. S. (1994). Impulsiveness and aggression. In Mohanan, J. & Steadman, H. J. (eds.). Violence and Mental Disorder. pp 61-79. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.

Campbell, A. (1993). Men, Women and Aggression. New York: Basic Books.

Dobash, R.E., and Dobash, R.D. (1992), Women, Violence and Social Change, London: Routledge.

Dobash, R.E., Dobash, R.D., Daly, M., and Wilson, M. (1992), ‘The myth of sexual symmetry in marital violence', Social Problems, 39(1): 71– 91.
Dobash and Dobash can be classed as seminal texts in the understanding of violence in marriage and violence against women more generally.

For a review of serial violence, see Holmes, R., and Holmes, S. (1996), Profiling Violent Crimes: an Investigative Tool, Thousand Oaks, Cal.: Sage.

For a thoughtful review of the policing of domestic violence, see Hoyle, C. (1998), Negotiating Domestic Violence Police, Criminal Justice and Victims, Oxford: Clarendon Press; and Sherman, L., and Smith, D. (1992), ‘Crime, punishment, and stake in conformity: legal and informal control of domestic violence', American Sociological Review, 57: 680– 90.

Gelles, R. (1998), ‘Family violence', in Tonry, M.  (ed.), The Handbook of Crime and Punishment, New York: Oxford University Press.

Jefferson, T., and Carlen, P. (eds.) (1996), Masculinities, Social Relations and Crime, Special Issue of British Journal of Criminology, 36(2), articles by Jefferson and Kersten.

Jones, S. (2000). Understanding Violent Crime. Milton Keynes: Open University.

Masters, B. (1997), The Evil That Men Do, London: Black Swan.
An analysis of male violence.

Muncer, S., Campbell,A., Jervis, V & Lewis, R. (2001). “Ladettes”, social representations and aggression, Sex Roles , 44, 1 / 2, 33-44.
A discussion of the ‘ladette culture’ that came to the fore from the late nineties onwards.

Sexual violence is well discussed in Felson, R. (1993), ‘Sexual coercion: a social interactionist approach', in R. Felson and J. Tedeschi (eds.), Aggression and Violence: Social Interactionist Perspectives, Washington, DC: American Psychological Association; and Scully, D. (1990), Understanding Sexual Violence, London: Harper Collins.