Understanding and Dealing With Violence: A Multicultural Approach

Wallace (health education, Columbia U.) and Carter (psychology and education, Columbia U.) present 12 contributions that gather material from across the humanities in order to satisfy the ambitious goal of understanding all forms of violence and presenting methods for stopping it. They view violence largely as a result of relationships between oppressor and oppressed in their discussions of racial hate crimes, gender-biased violence and rape, youth violence, and helping international victims of …