Framing excessive violence : discourse and dynamics /: discourse and dynamics. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Daniel Ziegler, Marco Gerster, Steffen Kramer.
• Editors: Ziegler, Daniel; Gerster, Marco; Krämer, Steffen
• Contents: 1. Introduction; Marco Gerster, Steffen Krämer and Daniel Ziegler; ; PART I. DYNAMICS OF EXCESS; 2. Emotional Dynamics of Violent Situations; Randall Collins; 3. Forward Panic and Police Riots; Anne Nassauer; 4. What the Situation Explains: On Riotous Violence; Ferdinand Sutterlüty; 5. Violence and Emotion; Bernhard Giesen; 6. Neo-Fascist Heroes: Group Identity and Idealisation of the Aggressor in Violent Right-wing Adolescents; Michael Günter; 7. Intimate Massacres: Next Steps Toward a Causal Explanation; Jack Katz; ; PART II. DISCOURSE AND IMAGINATION; 8. German Rampage: Social Discourse and the Emergence of a Disturbing Phenomenon; Jörn Ahrens; 9. Amok - Framing Discourses on Political Violence by Means of Symbolic Logic; Peter Klimczak and Christer Petersen; 10. Terrorism as Cultural Bricolage - The Case of Anders Behring Breivik; Sveinung Sandberg; 11. Tales of Abuse and Torture. The Narrative Framing of the Abu Ghraib Photographs; Werner Binder; 12. The (Relative) Absence of Torture in Documentary Photography; Annette Vowinckel; 13. Off Limits? International Law and the Excessive Use of Force; Jan Klabbers
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 303.6; Violence in Society; Violence; Violence; Sociology/General; Offenders; Violence in society; Criminal or forensic psychology; Social services & welfare, criminology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137514448; 1137514442
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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