Sociology of Violence and Crime
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Qualitative research provides opportunities to study bullying and peer harassment as social processes, interactions and meaning-making in the everyday context of particular settings. It offers the possibility of developing a deep... more
Livro publicado em 1979 na coleção "Textos Paralelos" pela Editora Achiamé e pelo Socii - Pesquisadores Associados em Ciências Sociais. Esgotado.
En el siguiente link, se encuentra la exposición de esta teoría, que tuve el honor de realizar en el evento TEDx USMA, Ciudad de Panamá, en el mes de mayo de 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9Mf_UGRWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9Mf_UGRWA
El artículo caracteriza el sistema de justicia penal costarricense y muestra los desafíos que enfrenta actualmente ante el incremento del delito en el país.
There has been a continuous attack on education, particularly alternative, progressive, democratic and liberatory forms of education that seek social justice and an equality of opportunity for all to develop. In the UK this has led to an... more
Violence has in recent years been framed as a public health problem. The medicalization of violence has involved various public health initiatives, with the USA based violence prevention initiative Cure Violence (CV), being one of the... more
الثأر نمط من أنماط ممارسة العنف الأولى الذى يحدث بين البشر من منطلق الحفاظ على توازن المكانة والقوة بين البشر والذى يظل مرهونا بتحقيق السلام والعدل الاجتماعى بين جماعات البشر. انه الشكل الأولى للعنف الذى يستوجب الرد ويعيد الأمور الى... more
Homophobic violence can be considered as an expressive act. Violent behavior can be considered as anti-homosexual when victims are chosen because they are considered or perceived as homosexual. Following this reasoning, hate crimes as... more
This paper focuses on the urban graffiti painted with a political message by different movements of the Italian political radicalism in the cities of Rome, Florence, Massa, Carrara, Verona and Udine. For the purpose of this article,... more
The aim of this study was to investigate how individuals;who had been victims of school bullying;perceived their bullying experiences and how these had affected them;and to generate a grounded theory of being a victim of bullying at... more
Apresentação do número 84 da Revista de Informação Bibliográfica em Ciências Sociais. Discute-se, neste paper de apresentação deste numero especial, as diferentes revisões realizadas sobre o campo de pesquisa em questão desde 1993,... more
Imprisonment is a widespread punishment all over the world, but prison is for most of us an unknown experience and anything we know is mostly through media and cinema representations. Therefore, it is very likely these representations... more
The international human rights movement of the last sixty five years now includes the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons and other sexual minorities. Although cultural historians and other have documented... more
The article focuses on the football Ultras and their involvement in the stadium as a social situation and contextual environment from a linguistic point of view. The focus of the article is on the Fiorentina Ultras - Ultras Viola - as it... more
Criminal activities and criminals are defined by the society. Law and especially criminal law is essential to define the society’s cooperative existence and integrity (Einstadter and Henry, 2006). The codification of mandates to regulate... more
Predmet rada je biopsihološka pozadina nasilnih krivičnih djela i analiza profila lica ih čine. Autor će kroz rad pružiti uvid u definicije osnovnih predmetnih pojmova, te pružiti izlaganja najdominantnijih biopsiholoških teorija iz... more
The present paper focuses on the concepts of urban and linguistic space. It considers the city as a diamesic melting pot. Graffitism is seen as a communication channel that needs to be examined in order to better understand the urban... more
Crime and violence are major themes that have dominated cinema screens around the world since the arrival of film in the late 19th Century, raising concerns about the potentially damaging effects of these images on vulnerable sections of... more
Violence is a confounding concept. It frequently defies explanation and lacks an agreed upon definition. Yet geographers are well positioned to bring greater conceptual clarity to violence by thinking through its intersections with space.... more
The study focuses on the republican murals painted on the walls of two cities, Belfast and Derry, in May 2009. The idea for the study was born during a trip to Northern Ireland during which I had the opportunity to observe the murals and... more
Les violences armées collectives dont les derniers épisodes remontent à octobre 2015 lorsque des bandes rivales de Bois Neuf et de Projet Drouillard se contre attaquaient sont-elles sur le point de disparaître à Cité Soleil? La cité... more
This article highlights the patriarchal nature of the Indian state and discusses this in relation to the state’s response to several rape and molestation cases. It emphasises a number of responses made by political, community and... more
This article puts forward two main arguments. First, it highlights the relation between different phases of neoliberalism in Morocco together with the specific methods and techniques of urban government that were deployed in efforts to... more
This is an abstract of a chapter in a forthcoming volume edited by Profs. Ulrike Freitag and Nelida Fuccaro (to be published 2014). "In December 1942, unrest broke out in Abadan, arguably Iran’s first modern city and home to the... more
Introduction The current use of the term adultism was first defined in 1978 by psychologist Jack Flasher (Flasher, 1978). In was later taken up and established as a meaningful concept by academics, researchers and advocates within... more
The policy brief looks at police and health services provided to sexual offences victims in South Africa with a view to highlighting what works in the system and where it is failing in providing adequate support.
This dissertation focuses on an applied theatre project, Young Voices that has attempted to develop a method, which inquires how performance forms can facilitate youth inclusion. Issues related to young people have been discussed... more
My contribution to the nuclear debate presents 3 possible concepts for complexity evolution, which make understood that what is at a stake right now is the evolution of complexity. The use of missiles in any war scenario has very little,... more
This thesis explores how a pragmatic theory of violence can be developed within Luc Boltanski’s sociology of regimes of action positioned in the overall framework of French pragmatic sociology. The thesis takes its outset in Boltanski’s... more
In: Winand, E.; Rodrigues, T. and Aguilar, S. (2016). Defesa e Segurança no Atlântico Sul. Aracaju: UFS Press.
Edwin M. Lemert è uno dei maestri della sociologia della devianza, in grado di rivoluzionare il rapporto tra soggetto e società con la sua teoria della reazione sociale e di influenzare la teoria dell'etichettamento. Anche nel nostro... more