Death Threats and Violence (eBook)

New Research and Clinical Perspectives

Stephen J. Morewitz (Autor)

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2008 | 2008
IX, 188 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-76663-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This fascinating work analyzes the meaning and impact of homicidal threats, the means by which they are communicated, and their development from infrequent private occurrence to ongoing social problem. Using data from the Stalking and Violence Project and recent events including the Virginia Tech massacre, Stephen Morewitz explores the lives of the men (and to a lesser degree, women) who make threats against their partners, strangers, social groups, and institutions.

Stephen J. Morewitz has almost 20 years of experience as a behavioral/public health scientist, university faculty member, and consultant. He runs a research institution in San Francisco supervising research on the epidemiology and psychosocial aspects of the lower extremity disease/injury, disability, diabetes, and arthritis, and more. He has served on the staff or faculty of Michael Reese Hospital & Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine & School of Public Health, DePaul University, Argonne National Laboratory, & the California College of Podiatric Medicine.

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Until recent decades, there was little emphasis on studying death threats as a social or psychological phenomenon. However, since the 1960s, attacks on public officials and celebrities and the ubiquitous nature of homicidal threats in face-to-face re- tions have spawned research and new organizational responses to death threats and related behaviors, such as stalking. Publicized workplace-related death threats and shootings, such as the 21 separate incidents since 1986 in which U.S. Postal Service employees were shot, and the death threats and attacks directed at schools and universities have helped to transform death threats from a private phenomenon into a social problem. Political leaders have developed new policies, organizational structures, and laws in an attempt to prevent death threats and related violence. Moreover, in the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. government and other governments around the world have formulated new policies and organizational structures to deal with the threat of terrorist attacks. At the level of interpersonal relations, the weakening of social control processes allows individuals to make homicidal threats against people and organizations in different settings. This book will address such questions as, Under what conditions are individuals able to evade social control by making death threats? What factors trigger the response of social control mechanisms to death threat makers? How effective are the institutional responses to death threats? At the macrolevel, this book assesses how governments and paramilitary and terrorist groups also employ death threats to achieve their desired social and political objectives.

Inhalt

Preface 4
Acknowledgments 6
Contents 7
Homicidal Threats 8
Death Threat Makers 26
Death Threat Victims 39
Stalking and Homicidal Threats 48
Death Threats and Weapon Use 59
Substance Use and Abuse, and Homicidal Threats 69
Death Threats and Violence at Schools and Colleges 74
Workplace Homicidal Threats and Violence 91
Crime, Culture, and War 102
Hate Crimes 109
Death Threats and Terrorism 126
Death Threats and the Legal System 135
About the Author 145
Research Methods 146
Study Results 148
Bibliography 157
Index 176

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.11.2008
• Zusatzinfo: IX, 188 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
• Schlagworte: Assessment • Counseling • Domestic violence • hate crimes • homicide • massacre • Police • school shooting • Stalking • Suicide • terrorism • weapon use
• ISBN-10: 0-387-76663-4 / 0387766634
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-76663-8 / 9780387766638