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Violence, Conflict, and World Order: Critical Conversations on State Sanctioned Justice
Author(s): Gregg Barak (Author), Mahin Ashki (Contributor), Tom Barker (Contributor), Robert Bohm (Contributor), Joan Callahan (Contributor), Walter S. DeKeseredy (Contributor), Jeff Ferrell (Contributor), David Friedrichs (Contributor), Carole Garrison (Contributor), Mark Hamm (Contributor), Victor Kappeler (Contributor), Peter Kraska (Contributor), Raymond Michalowski (Contributor), Karen Miller (Contributor), Gary Potter (Contributor), Thomas Reed (Contributor), Randall Shelden (Contributor)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date: 20 Dec. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780742547674
- ISBN-13: 0742547671
Book Description
This is an ethnographic collection of 12 edited talks and conversations from a conference on violence, conflict, and the world order held at Eastern Kentucky University. The conference was organized by Carole Garrison, Chair of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at EKU, who arranged for video recording and transcription of the talks and conversations. The collection is divided into two parts: domestic and global issues. Some of the topics examined include violence against women, restrictions on women’s reproduction, culture and ideology, homeland security, terrorism and invasion, empire, and human rights. The talks themselves are framed by an insightful and exciting prologue and an intriguing epilogue by the editor.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Violence, Conflict, and World Order explores the relationship between globalizing social processes and recent changes in the level and forms of violence, representations of these changes and the varying state responses to them. It pinpoints how the development of neoliberal ideologies and forms of economic and political organization has an impact on a range of relationships between individuals and between individuals and wider institutional structures particularly when the consequences are criminal, repressive and socially destructive. The conversations introduce a wide range of contemporary, scholarly, and critical social scientific thinking accessible to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Those involved with Criminology, Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Political Science Programs will be particularly interested. — Frank Pearce, Queens University
About the Author
Gregg Barak is an emeritus professor of criminology and criminal justice at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of a number of books, including Unchecked Corporate Power.
Tom Barker is a former police officer, a police academy instructor, a college and university instructor, and a college dean. He is a past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Studies. He has authored or coauthored seventeen books, including six that have gone into multiple editions―one, nine editions. Dr. Barker is considered a national and international expert in several areas: law-enforcement practices, including reform, and adult criminal gangs―street, prison, and outlaw motorcycle gangs. Since his retirement from college teaching in 2000, he has devoted his time to full-time writing and research.
Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and professor of sociology at West Virginia University.
