Violence, Conflict, and World Order

Gregg Barak is professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Eastern Michigan University and a Visiting Distinguished Professor and Scholar, College of Justice & Safety, Eastern Kentucky University, where the conversations occurred in the Spring of 2004.

Violence, Conflict, and World Order explores the relationship between globalizing social processes and recent changes in the level and forms of violence, representations of these changes and the varying state responses to them. It pinpoints how the development of neoliberal ideologies and forms of economic and political organization has an impact on a range of relationships between individuals and between individuals and wider institutional structures particularly when the consequences are criminal, repressive and socially destructive. The conversations introduce a wide range of contemporary, scholarly, and critical social scientific thinking accessible to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Those involved with Criminology, Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Political Science Programs will be particularly interested.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Violence in an Age of GlobalizationPart 2 Domestic ConversationsChapter 3 Homeland Security: Which Homeland and Whose Security?Chapter 4 Violence Against Women as NormativeChapter 5 Restrictions on Women's Reproduction in the United StatesChapter 6 Rural Women, Violence, and DivorceChapter 7 The World of Outlaw Bikers and WomenPart 8 Global ConversationsChapter 9 Terrorism Post 9/11Chapter 10 The Blurring of War and Law EnforcementChapter 11 Crime and Crime Control in an Age of GlobalizationChapter 12 White-Collar Crime and GlobalizationChapter 13 Capital Punishment and GlobilizationChapter 14 Invasion, Empire, and Human RightsChapter 15 Epilogue: Human Rights, the Corporate State, and Social Justice in a Global Village