International perspectives on violence/
edited by Leonore Loeb Adler and Florence L. Denmark ; foreword by Melvin Ember.
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
- xvii, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A critical review of Arab research studies on violence/aggression and extreme behavior / Ramadan A. Ahmed -- Violence in Australia / Diane Bretherton -- The phases of violence in Brazil / Clary Milnitsky-Sapiro -- Violence in Colombia : social and psychological aspects / Ruben Ardila -- Violence in Great Britain / Ludwig F. Lowenstein -- Violence in Indonesia / Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono -- Northern Ireland violence : a possible end / Joseph O'Donoghue -- Violence in Israel / Noach A. Milgram -- Violence in Japan / Seisoh Sukemune -- Peace and violence : a comparison of Buddhist Ladakh and the United States / Uwe P. Gielen -- Violence against women in Africa : impact of culture on womanhood / Wilhelmina J. Kalu -- Domestic violence against women and children in the Philippines : sociocultural factors / Elena L. Samonte-Hinckley -- The roots of violence in modern Russia : a psychocriminological analysis / Sergei V. Tsytsarev and Yakov Gilinsky -- Manifestations of violence in South Africa / André J. Pelser and Chris P. de Kock -- Violence in the United States of America / June F. Chisholm and Alfred W. Ward -- Violence and American Indians : culture--then and now / John Beatty -- Epilogue : global violence / Kay C. Greene.