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Part I Introduction.. Control of Violence-An Analytical Framework.. Part II Mechanisms and Strategies of Violence Control An End to Violence.. Cross-National Homicide Trends in the Latter Decades of the Twentieth Century: Losses and Gains in Institutional Control?.. Self-Control and the Management of Violence.. Self-Control, Conscience, and Criminal Violence: Some Preliminary Considerations.. Reading Religious Violence in Terms of Theories of Social Action.. Religion and Control of Violence.. Gun Violence and Control in Germany 1880-1911: Scandalizing Gun Violence and Changing Perceptions as Preconditions for Firearm Control.. Controlling Control Institutions: Policing of Collective Protests in 1960s West Germany.. Part III The Micro-level: School Shootings School Violence and Its Control in Germany and the United States Since the 1950s.. School Shooting: A Double Loss of Control.. Explaining and Preventing School Shootings: Chances and Difficulties of Control.. Masculinity, School Shooters, and the Control of Violence.. Media and Control of Violence: Communication in School Shootings.. Part IV The Meso-level: Terrorism Terrorism as Performance: The Assassinations of Walther Rathenau and Hanns-Martin Schleyer.. Party Politics, National Security, and Émigré Political Violence in Australia, 1949-1973.. Control of Terror-Terror of Control.. Terrorism: Conditions and Limits of Control.. Fighting for the Community of Believers: Dynamics of Control in the Relationship Between Militant Islamist Movements and their Constituencies.. Baseless Jihad.. Part V The Macro level: Violence in States in Crisis Ethnic Riots in Situations of Loss of Control: Revolution, Civil War, and Regime Change as Opportunity Structures for Anti-Jewish Violence in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe.. Control and Chaos: Paramilitary Violence and the Dissolution of the Habsburg Empire

Failed States in Theoretical, Historical, and Policy Perspectives.. Putting Out the Fire with Gasoline? Violence Control in "Fragile" States: A Study of Vigilantism in Nigeria.. Concluding Remarks.. Subject Index

"Modern societies are increasingly confronted with forms of violence that appear unpredictable and uncontrollable. Are the existing control regimes such as police, state surveillance institutions, and legal systems able to effectively contain phenomena such as school shootings, terrorism, or violence in fragile states, and what would help them become more effective? What is the relationship between state rule and self-control in limiting violence? Taking an historically and internationally comparative perspective, the contributors to this innovative book examine these violent phenomena as well as the preconditions and mechanisms of their control. Taking into consideration the fundamentally ambivalent character of control, they explore how institutions and strategies of control retroact on and thus re-shape societies. Moreover, they address general aspects of violence control in modern societies such as the concept of individual self-control, the impact of changing social institutions and the role of religion. The contributions to this volume explore violence on the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of social organization, creating a cohesive theoretical framework for understanding violence on each of these levels. Control of Violence in Modern Societies will be of great interest to researchers studying violence, particularly to those studying the phenomenon in a global context, be it from a criminological, a sociological or from a public health perspective." Inglés