Exploring Violence in Families and Societies (Electronic book text)

'Violence: Probing the Boundaries' is a compilation of 12 seminal papers which examine issues central to the issues of 'What Counts as Violence and What's Wrong with it, Contexts of Violence, Explaining and Understanding Violence and Representing Violence.' The essays are multi - and inter - disciplinary in nature and aim to identify and understand violence in contemporary life. The papers seek to pay particular attention to the different contexts and sites where violence develops, occurs and where its effects are felt; from the interpersonal to the international, from the empirical to the symbolic. This compilation also identifies the motives, dynamics and the functions that violence has for individuals, groups, populations and societies, as well as for bonds and social relations in the private, institutional and public spheres of life. Likewise, it also explores how violence is represented and dealt with in media, art and literature.