Violence Summary

Violence 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.... Read more

National Television Violence Study Violence on television has been the subject of debate for decades in the United States. It seems as though everyone has an opinion on the topic. Many observers argue... Read more

Violence "Violence" is derived from the Latin violentia, "vehemence," which itself comes from vis (force) + latus (to carry) and means, literally, intense force. Violence s... Read more

“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.” &mda... Read more

STORIES OF VIOLENCE by and against youth explode from the news like gunshots from a passing car. It would seem that America is under attack by armed teenagers. During the early 1980s, about a thousand... Read more