Interpersonal Violence: Differences and Connections

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From early modernity to today, society has encountered various forms of interpersonal violence. Through exploration of particular areas within Europe and Russia to Africa, America and Asia, this collection presents both differences and connections among various forms of interpersonal violence in different times, places, institutional orders and relationships. Interpersonal Violence introduces research results from studies in various disciplines, such as history, sociology, social policy social work, cultural studies, and gender studies. In focusing on the diverse and often ignored social locations and cultural backgrounds of interpersonal violence, the book demonstrates 1) how the specificity of temporality and spatiality affect the manifestation of violence, 2) how the dynamics of intersectional and institutional differences are located in social space and time, and 3) how the different forms of violence in different times are affectively, conceptually and discursively connected. With its comprehensive and integrative approach, this book is a key tool book for understanding the phenomenon and cultural conceptions of interpersonal violence. It would be most suitable for upper level undergraduates, graduates doctoral students interested in social sciences, history, criminology, psychology, cultural studies, education, gender studies and public health. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Notes on contributors Acknowledgements A spatial-temporal, intersectional and institutional approach to interpersonal violence Part I Histories 1 Intersections of rape crime and child protection in early modern courts 2 Offences of the flesh? Infanticide as a consequence of cryptic pregnancy in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Finland 3 Lethal chastisement of children in pre-industrial Finland (c.1700–1860): reasons, practices and control Part II Cultures 4 Honour, dishonour and homicides in Britain, Namibia and Turkey: historical and contemporary perspectives 5 Woman-to-woman violence: impact of traditional practices on women and girls in the Lake Zone Regions of Tanzania, East Africa 6 Exploring interpersonal violence and intimate partner violence issues in the Japanese legal and socio-cultural contexts 7 Gendering responsibility: Finnish and Russian helping professionals’ views on responsible agency in the context of intimate partner violence Part III Relationships 8 The murder of women 9 Children’s voices, children’s agency and the development of knowledge about children exposed to intimate partner violence 10 Interethnic conflicts and ethnic victimization in Slovenian schools 11 Self-reporting by older adults as victims of violence in Portugal: the remaining taboo issue 12 Want, dare and be able to – abused women’s experiences of support during the preliminary investigation and criminal trial procedure Part IV Discourses 13 Love and fire: the role of passion in representations of intimate partner violence 14 Reading, interventions: states of interpersonal and intrapersonal violence in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power 15 From rejection to understanding: towards a synthetic approach to interpersonal violence Index