While many books explore such specific issues as gun violence, arson, murder, and crime prevention, this encyclopedia serves as a one-stop resource for exploring the history, societal factors, and current dimensions of violence in America in all its forms.
This encyclopedia explores violence in the United States, from the nation's founding to modern-day trends, laws, viewpoints, and media depictions. Providing a nuanced lens through which to think about violence in America, including its underlying causes, its iterations, and possible solutions, this work offers broad and authoritative coverage that will be immensely helpful to users ranging from high school and undergraduate students to professionals in law enforcement and school administration.
In addition to detailed and evenhanded summaries of the key events and issues relating to violence in America, contributors highlight important events, political debates, legal perspectives, modern dimensions, and critical approaches. This encyclopedia also features excerpts from such important primary source documents as legal rulings, presidential speeches, and congressional testimony from scholars and activists on aspects of violence in America. Together, these documents provide important insights into past and present patterns of violent crime in the United States, as well as proposed solutions to those problems.
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An ideal overview of American violence that will pique the interest of general readers and provide high school students and undergraduates with an outstanding resource for reports and background research. * Library Journal, Starred Review * This work provides essential reading for anyone interested in violence. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. * Choice *
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Grundschule und weiterführende Schule
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ISBN-13
978-1-4408-5467-5 (9781440854675)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Chris Richardson, PhD, is assistant professor of communication studies at Young Harris College, GA.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chronology
Volume 1 Animal Cruelty to Murder
Animal Cruelty
Stephen Muzzatti and Kirsten L. Grieve
Further Reading
Primary Documents 22
ASPCA Position Statement
Excerpts from the USDA "Blue Book" on Animal Care
Arson
Rhena South
Further Reading
Primary Documents 46
Anti-Arson Act of 1979 Bill Summary
Excerpt from the U.S. Department of Justice Law Enforcement Assistance Administration Manual (1981)
Arson-for-Profit Information Center Final Review and Evaluation Report (New York City)
Assault and Battery
David White
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Excerpt from Fisher v. Carrousel Motor Hotel (Supreme Court of Texas, 1967)
Sentencing of Officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell (1993)
Excerpt from the Congressional Hearing on "The Impact of Interactive Violence on Children" (2000)
Civil Disobedience and Nonviolent Protest
Andrea Simmonds
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Excerpts of Arguments in Clay v. United States (1971)
Cyberbullying
Tamar Faber
Further Reading
Primary Documents 142
"What Is Cyberbullying" from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
BE BEST Campaign Mission (2017)
Domestic Violence
Sabine Elisabeth Aretz
Further Reading
Primary Documents 162
Attitudes toward Domestic Violence in the 1820s-Calvin Bradley v. the State (1824)
Excerpts from Thurman v. City of Torrington Decision (1985)
Presidential Proclamation of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month (2018)
Hate Crime
Dana Mihailescu
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Remarks of President Barack Obama at Commemoration of the Passage of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act (2009)
Excerpt from the Bias Crime Assessment Tool (BCAT) and Guidelines
Lynching
Jennifer Potter
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Excerpt from "Lynch Law in Georgia" by Ida Wells-Barnett (1899)
Bill Declaring Lynching a Federal Crime (2018)
Mass Shootings
Angie Chuang
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Excerpts of Responses from Members of Congress to Various Recent Mass Shootings
Media Violence
Aaron Drummond and James D. Sauer
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Congressional Testimony of Dee Snider of Twisted Sister (1985)
Excerpts from the Brown v. EMA Supreme Court Decision (2011)
Murder
Chris Richardson
Further Reading
Primary Documents 307
Excerpts from Serial Murder: Pathways for Investigations (2015)
Volume 2 Police Violence to Youth Violence
Police Violence
Nataleah Hunter-Young
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Excerpt from Report on the FBI's COINTELPRO Program (1976)
Excerpt from the Trial of the LAPD Officers Involved in the Rodney King Beating (1991)
Prison Violence
Grant Tietjen
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Excerpt from the Diary of John L. Ransom, Inmate at Andersonville Prison (July 1864)
Mortality in Local Jails and State Prisons, 2000-2013-Statistical Tables (2015)
Rape and Sexual Violence
Luigi Esposito
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery (1860)
Frequently Asked Questions about the Change in the UCR Definition of Rape (2014)
Religious Violence
Kendall Marchman
Further Reading
Primary Documents
John Louis O'Sullivan on America's Manifest Destiny (1845)
U.S. Senate Resolution Apologizing for Past Government Mistreatment of Native Americans (2009)
Robbery
Aaron Puhrmann, Christian Schlaerth, Justin Jacobi, and Garrett Gillen
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Excerpt from James Guelff and Chris McCurley Body Armor Act of 2001
Slavery and Human Trafficking
Walter Isaac
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Slavery Convention of 1926
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1957)
Sports Violence
Shaughan A. Keaton and Christopher C. Gearhart
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Excerpt from Congressional Hearing on Violence in Sports (2014)
Stalking
Sabine Elisabeth Aretz
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Statement of Kathleen Krueger before the Senate Judiciary Committee (1993)
Excerpt from the Revision of The Model Stalking Code (2007)
Press Release Describing the Cyberstalking Case of David Matusiewicz and Amy Gonzalez (2018)
Terrorism and Anti-Government Violence
Ryan Shaffer
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Excerpt of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision Affirming the Conviction of Timothy McVeigh (1997)
Visualizing Violence
Jody B. Cutler-Bittner
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Excerpt from Ida B. Wells-Barnett's Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)
War
Glen M. E. Duerr
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Declaration of Independence (1776)
American Declaration of War against Japan (1941)
Speech of President George W. Bush Announcing the Commencement of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan (2001)
Youth Violence
Karen J. Renner
Further Reading
Primary Documents
Excerpt from William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)
Excerpt from the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Roper v. Simmons (2005)
About the Editor and Contributors
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