Violence and Society features a multidisciplinary collection of readings by leading national and international experts that set a new agenda for our understanding of interpersonal and state violence in contemporary society.

• Features contributions from leading international experts in collective, state, and interpersonal violence
• Develops innovative interdisciplinary theorizations based on new empirical studies on violence and society
• Incorporates within an emerging analytical framework issues of war, domestic and gender-based violence, fighting, honor and shame, violence and identity, and politics and violence
• Allows us to better understand the world we live in