Gregg Barak is professor of criminology and criminal justice and former department head of sociology, anthropology, and criminology at Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Barak is the editor and/or author of some 20 books and three of these are award winning titles. Most recently, these books and awards include:Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist: Working the Margins of Law, Power, and Justice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020.Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America, 5th edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2018. (Co-authors P. Leighton & A. Cotton). Unchecked Corporate Power: Why the Crimes of Multinational Corporations are Routinized Away and What We Can Do About It. London and New York: Routledge. 2017. (Recipient of the Outstanding Book Award for 2017 from the ASC’s Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime).The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful. Editor and Contributor. London & New York: Routledge. 2015.Theft of a Nation: Wall Street Looting and Federal Regulatory Colluding. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. (Recipient of the Outstanding Publication Award for 2012 from the White Collar Crime Research Consortium and the National Center for White Collar Crime, Washington, D.C.).Professor Barak has served as Chair of the Critical Division of the American Society of Criminology, was the Critical Criminologist of the Year in 1999, and has served on more than a dozen editorial boards.

"Gregg Barak’s Violence and Nonviolence is a thoughtful, comprehensive examination of violence in the United States. Structurally and conceptually this book works. Barak addresses violence in an interdisciplinary way, addressing history, psychology, biology, cultural studies, and sociology. Moreover, Barak does an excellent job of discussing the intersection of race, class, and gender and those relationships with violence."

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsINTRODUCTION - Secrets of Violence and NonviolenceDecreasing Violence and Increasing NonviolenceFeelings and StructuresPrivate and Public ShameA Germ Theory of Violence and NonviolenceViolent and Nonviolent Rhetoric, Youth at Risk, and Implications for PeacemakingViolence Against Youth Is More Important Than Violence by YouthOrganization of the BookReferencesPART I: TYPES OF VIOLENCEChapter One: Violence in PerspectiveSanctioned and Unsanctioned Violence: An Alternative PerspectiveViolence as an Integral Part of American LifeAmerican Violence in Historical PerspectiveAmerican Violence in Contemporary PerspectiveAmerican Violence in Comparative PerspectiveA Reciprocal Approach to Studying ViolenceSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Two: Interpersonal ViolenceBox 2.1 Harrassment and SilenceHomicideBox 2.2 Serial KillerBox 2.3 Retaliatory BombingBox 2.4 Homosexual Panic Leading to MurderBox 2.5 Rape and HomicideBox 2.6 Situated TransactionsBox 2.7 Altruisitic KillingsBox 2.8 Motherhood and Mental IllnessJuvenile VictimizationBox 2.9 Homosexual Juvenile HomicideBox 2.10 College MurderBox 2.11 High School HomicideBox 2.12 The Smiling GunmanPhysical and Sexual Child AbuseBox 2.13 Rapist ReturnsRapeBox 2.14 Elder Rape and MurderStalkingSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Three: Institutional ViolenceBox 3.1 Rampage in Central ParkBox 3.2 The Hamburg Riot, 1876Supremacy (2000)Box 3.3 The Birmingham Church Bombing, 1963Family ViolenceBox 3.4 "Silence Ending About Abuse in Gay Relationships"Childhood MaltreatmentSchool ViolenceBox 3.5 Youth Sports and ViolenceGang ViolenceBox 3.6 Do or Die Police and Penal ViolenceBox 3.7 Police TortureBox 3.8 The Rampart ScandalBox 3.9 New Jersey Turnpike ShootingsBox 3.10 Private Youth PrisonsBox 3.11 Danger on Death RowSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Four: Structural ViolenceBox 4.1 Child Slave LaborPostcolonial ViolenceBox 4.2 Genocide in the AmericasCorporate ViolenceBox 4.3 The Tobacco IndustryBox 4.4 The ValuJet CrashBox 4.5 The Auto IndustryUnderclass ViolenceBox 4.6 Hate Crimes Against the HomelessTerrorist ViolenceInstitutional-Structural ViolenceBox 4.7 The War on KidsSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsPART II: PATHWAYS TO VIOLENCEChapter Five: Explanations of ViolenceAd Hoc Explanations: General and Family ViolenceLife-Course Models of Human Behavior: Causation, Time, and ViolenceOn the Reciprocity of Violent and Nonviolent PathwaysA Reciprocal Theory of ViolenceSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Six: Media and ViolenceMass Media, Columbine, and the Middle EastBox 6.1 A Dialogue on Media and ViolenceBox 6.2 Tania Modleski′s TaleAmerica′s Fascination With Mediated ViolenceViolence and Media Context: The Direct and Indirect EffectsMass Media: Production, Distortion, and ConsumptionSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Seven: Sexuality and ViolencePhilosophizing About SexualityNature, Nurture, and Human EvolutionOn Aggression and NonaggressionMarking the Sexualities of Difference and HierarchyBox 7.1 The Dialectics of Sexuality and the New PornographyBox 7.2 Sexuality, Androgyny, and SadomasochismSexual Difference, Gender Identity, and ViolenceSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsPART III: PATHWAYS TO NONVIOLENCEChapter Eight: Recovering From ViolenceA Reciprocal Approach to Violence RecoveryBox 8.1 Battered Women, Welfare, Poverty, Reciprocal Violence, and RecoveryInterpersonal RecoveryInstitutional RecoveryBox 8.2 Films, Recovery, and VigilantismStructural RecoveryBox 8.3 Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Energy, and RecoverySummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Nine: Models of NonviolenceOn the Paradigms of Adversarialism and MutualismA Brief History of Nonviolent Struggle (1900-2000)Models of NonviolencePositive PeacemakingSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Ten: Policies of NonviolenceA Summary Review of Victimization and the Pathways to ViolenceA Review and Critique of the Adversarial War on ViolenceMutualism and the Struggle for NonviolenceNonviolent Policies That Prevent Antisocial Pathways to ViolenceNonviolent Policies That Build Pathways to Positive Peace, Human Rights, and Social JusticeTransformative Justice and Pathways to Violence and NonviolenceReferencesReview QuestionsIndexAbout the Author

Gregg Barak is professor of criminology and criminal justice and former department head of sociology, anthropology, and criminology at Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Barak is the editor and/or author of some 20 books and three of these are award winning titles. Most recently, these books and awards include:Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist: Working the Margins of Law, Power, and Justice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020.Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America, 5th edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2018. (Co-authors P. Leighton & A. Cotton). Unchecked Corporate Power: Why the Crimes of Multinational Corporations are Routinized Away and What We Can Do About It. London and New York: Routledge. 2017. (Recipient of the Outstanding Book Award for 2017 from the ASC’s Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime).The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful. Editor and Contributor. London & New York: Routledge. 2015.Theft of a Nation: Wall Street Looting and Federal Regulatory Colluding. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. (Recipient of the Outstanding Publication Award for 2012 from the White Collar Crime Research Consortium and the National Center for White Collar Crime, Washington, D.C.).Professor Barak has served as Chair of the Critical Division of the American Society of Criminology, was the Critical Criminologist of the Year in 1999, and has served on more than a dozen editorial boards.

"Gregg Barak’s Violence and Nonviolence is a thoughtful, comprehensive examination of violence in the United States. Structurally and conceptually this book works. Barak addresses violence in an interdisciplinary way, addressing history, psychology, biology, cultural studies, and sociology. Moreover, Barak does an excellent job of discussing the intersection of race, class, and gender and those relationships with violence."

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsINTRODUCTION - Secrets of Violence and NonviolenceDecreasing Violence and Increasing NonviolenceFeelings and StructuresPrivate and Public ShameA Germ Theory of Violence and NonviolenceViolent and Nonviolent Rhetoric, Youth at Risk, and Implications for PeacemakingViolence Against Youth Is More Important Than Violence by YouthOrganization of the BookReferencesPART I: TYPES OF VIOLENCEChapter One: Violence in PerspectiveSanctioned and Unsanctioned Violence: An Alternative PerspectiveViolence as an Integral Part of American LifeAmerican Violence in Historical PerspectiveAmerican Violence in Contemporary PerspectiveAmerican Violence in Comparative PerspectiveA Reciprocal Approach to Studying ViolenceSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Two: Interpersonal ViolenceBox 2.1 Harrassment and SilenceHomicideBox 2.2 Serial KillerBox 2.3 Retaliatory BombingBox 2.4 Homosexual Panic Leading to MurderBox 2.5 Rape and HomicideBox 2.6 Situated TransactionsBox 2.7 Altruisitic KillingsBox 2.8 Motherhood and Mental IllnessJuvenile VictimizationBox 2.9 Homosexual Juvenile HomicideBox 2.10 College MurderBox 2.11 High School HomicideBox 2.12 The Smiling GunmanPhysical and Sexual Child AbuseBox 2.13 Rapist ReturnsRapeBox 2.14 Elder Rape and MurderStalkingSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Three: Institutional ViolenceBox 3.1 Rampage in Central ParkBox 3.2 The Hamburg Riot, 1876Supremacy (2000)Box 3.3 The Birmingham Church Bombing, 1963Family ViolenceBox 3.4 "Silence Ending About Abuse in Gay Relationships"Childhood MaltreatmentSchool ViolenceBox 3.5 Youth Sports and ViolenceGang ViolenceBox 3.6 Do or Die Police and Penal ViolenceBox 3.7 Police TortureBox 3.8 The Rampart ScandalBox 3.9 New Jersey Turnpike ShootingsBox 3.10 Private Youth PrisonsBox 3.11 Danger on Death RowSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Four: Structural ViolenceBox 4.1 Child Slave LaborPostcolonial ViolenceBox 4.2 Genocide in the AmericasCorporate ViolenceBox 4.3 The Tobacco IndustryBox 4.4 The ValuJet CrashBox 4.5 The Auto IndustryUnderclass ViolenceBox 4.6 Hate Crimes Against the HomelessTerrorist ViolenceInstitutional-Structural ViolenceBox 4.7 The War on KidsSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsPART II: PATHWAYS TO VIOLENCEChapter Five: Explanations of ViolenceAd Hoc Explanations: General and Family ViolenceLife-Course Models of Human Behavior: Causation, Time, and ViolenceOn the Reciprocity of Violent and Nonviolent PathwaysA Reciprocal Theory of ViolenceSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Six: Media and ViolenceMass Media, Columbine, and the Middle EastBox 6.1 A Dialogue on Media and ViolenceBox 6.2 Tania Modleski′s TaleAmerica′s Fascination With Mediated ViolenceViolence and Media Context: The Direct and Indirect EffectsMass Media: Production, Distortion, and ConsumptionSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Seven: Sexuality and ViolencePhilosophizing About SexualityNature, Nurture, and Human EvolutionOn Aggression and NonaggressionMarking the Sexualities of Difference and HierarchyBox 7.1 The Dialectics of Sexuality and the New PornographyBox 7.2 Sexuality, Androgyny, and SadomasochismSexual Difference, Gender Identity, and ViolenceSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsPART III: PATHWAYS TO NONVIOLENCEChapter Eight: Recovering From ViolenceA Reciprocal Approach to Violence RecoveryBox 8.1 Battered Women, Welfare, Poverty, Reciprocal Violence, and RecoveryInterpersonal RecoveryInstitutional RecoveryBox 8.2 Films, Recovery, and VigilantismStructural RecoveryBox 8.3 Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Energy, and RecoverySummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Nine: Models of NonviolenceOn the Paradigms of Adversarialism and MutualismA Brief History of Nonviolent Struggle (1900-2000)Models of NonviolencePositive PeacemakingSummaryReferencesReview QuestionsChapter Ten: Policies of NonviolenceA Summary Review of Victimization and the Pathways to ViolenceA Review and Critique of the Adversarial War on ViolenceMutualism and the Struggle for NonviolenceNonviolent Policies That Prevent Antisocial Pathways to ViolenceNonviolent Policies That Build Pathways to Positive Peace, Human Rights, and Social JusticeTransformative Justice and Pathways to Violence and NonviolenceReferencesReview QuestionsIndexAbout the Author