This entry does not provide an overview of the whole range of men’s violences (Hearn 1998). Many of the relevant issues are already addressed in a broad range of other entries noted at the end of this entry. This present essay partly responds to...

Violence entails inflicting emotional, psychological, sexual, physical and/or material damage. It involves the exercise of force or constraint perpetrated by individuals, on their own behalf or for a collective or state-sanctioned purpose. Research on...

Collective violence bracketed the Civil War and was important both to events leading up to the war and to its results. In an upsurge of rioting in the mid-1830s, proslavery mobs predominated. Northern and Southern rioters attacked African Americans and...

Just as violence has long been taken to be a sign of the primitive, the savage or the uncivilized, or alternatively of the deviant, the individual and the unsocialized, so anthropology has long been concerned to show that violence obeys rules, is part...

Violence is the exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse. The word is used broadly to describe the destructive action of natural phenomena like storms and earthquakes. More frequently the word describes forceful human destruction of property...

The actual impact of violence hinges on how the concept is defined. A broad definition of violence would yield more violence in the mass media, than if the concept were defined in narrower terms. Since concepts are defined by their relationships with other terms...

VIOLENCE Parents must set stricter rules Saturday, July 24, 2004 There's an epidemic afflicting the city of Milwaukee and holding the citizens of the community hostage. It is the problem of youths from age 5 to 17 walking the streets at...

Unidentified gunmen opened fire on soldiers guarding polling precincts during special elections Saturday in 13 Philippine towns where voting was postponed last week over fears of violence.The government sent about 2,000 soldiers and 500 regional police commandos to secure the elections in southern Lanao del...

The price for burning down a home: 500 shillings, or about $8. Double that to have someone hacked to death.The price list comes from a leading Kenyan human rights group that says some of the worst violence in the country's deadly disputed presidential election is...

In the following essay, Barish examines the theme of violence as it appears in Shakespeare's plays, and suggests that throughout his career Shakespeare gradually lost interest in gratuitous violence and increasingly connected violence with disorder and tyranny.

In the following essay, Tennenhouse explores the political implications behind the portrayal of violence perpetrated against the aristocratic female body in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.

In the past few years, shockingly violent acts perpetrated by young people have figured prominently in newspaper headlines. On the morning of May 9, 1995, a homeless man in New York City was burned alive by five youths, ranging in age from twelve to...

“A vast system of communications technology . . . has led to the creation of a culture of violence of unprecedented dimensions, much of it directed toward or available to children.” —journalist and professor Myriam Miedzian...

Examines violence in media and society. Discusses rising incidents of school violence. Debates whether modern mainstream media is to blame.

Focuses on violence in today's society and its causes, asking whether the government is to blame. Examines possible causes such as human nature and psychology, the availability of weapons, household objects as weapons, the media's role, video games, and other factors. Keywords: Bystander Effect, Diffusion of Responsibility, Kitty Genovese, September 11th, wrestling, television

Studies regarding the influence of media violence on crime in society are inconclusive. Several experiments are discussed, including one on imitative learning. Based on his research, this essay's author feels the media does not have have a direct impact on violence in society.