A large body of research has produced vast quantities of empirical data on risk factors for violence in a range of countries and community contexts.
Despite the unquestionable successes of this research in cataloging these risk factors, relatively little is known about the situational factors and mechanisms that translate risks for violence into enactments of violence itself. Without stronger explanations of these situational pathways to violence, understandings of violence remain fuzzy.
This special issue aims to address this important limitation through a focus on the situational dimensions of violence.
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Table of contents
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- Situational Factors and Mechanisms in Pathways to Violence
Brett Bowman, Kevin A. Whitehead, and Geoffrey Raymond - Situational Dynamics and the Emergence of Violence in Protests
Anne Nassauer - How Violence Happens (or Not): Situational Conditions of Violence and Nonviolence in Bahrain, Tunisia, and Syria
Isabel Bramsen - Violence as Work: Ethnomethodological Insights Into Military Combat Operations
Chris Elsey, Michael Mair, and Martina Kolanoski - "Risk Factors" in Action: The Situated Constitution of "Risk" in Violent Interactions
Kevin A. Whitehead, Brett Bowman, and Geoffrey Raymond - Differences in the Type and Sequence Order of Self-Defense Behaviors During a High-Risk Victimization Scenario: Impact of Prior Sexual Victimization
RaeAnn E. Anderson, Shawn P. Cahill, and Douglas L. Delahanty - Predicting Men's Immediate Reactions to a Simulated Date's Sexual Rejection: The Effects of Hostile Masculinity, Impersonal Sex, and Hostile Perceptions of the Woman
Jacqueline Woerner, Antonia Abbey, Breanne R. Helmers, Sheri E. Pegram, and Zunaira Jilani - Inducing Sadness Reduces Anger-Driven Aggressive Behavior: A Situational Approach to Aggression Control
Johannes Lutz and Barbara Krahé - Multilevel Influences on Men's Partner Violence Justification, Control Over Family Decisions, and Partner Violence Perpetration in Bangladesh
Kathryn M. Yount, Katherine A. Roof, and Ruchira T. Naved - On the Justification of Intergroup Violence: The Roles of Procedural Justice, Police Legitimacy, and Group Identity in Attitudes Toward Violence Among Indigenous People
Monica M. Gerber, Roberto González, Héctor Carvacho, Gloria Jiménez-Moya, Cristóbal Moya, and Jonathan Jackson - Biases in Blaming Victims of Rape and Other Crime
Richard B. Felson and Christopher Palmore
