Consensual Violence
Consensual Violence

Author: Jill D. Weinberg

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2016-05-31

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0520290666

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"In this novel approach to understanding consent, Jill D. Weinberg features two case studies where groups engage in seemingly violent acts: competitive mixed martial arts and sexual sadomasochism. These activities are similar in that consenting to injury is central to the activity, and participants of both activities have to engage in a form of social decriminalization, leveraging the legal authority imbued in the language of consent as a way to render their activities legally and socially tolerable. Yet, these activities are treated differently under criminal battery law. Using interviews with participants and ethnographic observation, Weinberg argues that where law authorizes a person's consent to an activity, consent is not meaningfully regulated or constructed by the participants themselves. In contrast, where law prohibits a person's consent to an activity, participants actively construct and regulate consent. This difference demonstrates that law can make consent less consensual. Synthesizing criminal law and ethnography, Consensual Violence is a fascinating account of how consent gets created and carried out among participants and lays the groundwork for a sociology of consent and a more sociological understanding of processes of decriminalization."--Provided by publisher.

Research Handbook on Domestic Violence and Abuse
Research Handbook on Domestic Violence and Abuse

Author: Mandy Burton

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-09-06

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1035300648

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This Research Handbook examines the evolution of understandings and legal definitions of domestic abuse, illustrating the importance of expanding these beyond physical violence to encompass coercive control. Drawing on academic literature, legal doctrine and the lived experiences of victims and survivors, it highlights how responses to domestic abuse can be improved in civil, family and criminal justice systems.

Sexual Abuse and Consensual Sex
Sexual Abuse and Consensual Sex

Author: Gail Elizabeth Wyatt

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1993-09-15

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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This is the first book to examine the relationship between sexual and psychological functioning in terms of its effects on patterns of sexual practice over the lifespan. The authors explore: the impact of both voluntary and involuntary sexual experiences in childhood on adolescent sexual activities; the consequences of childhood and adolescent sexual experiences on women's sexual behaviour in adulthood; and the influence of adult sexual abuse.

State Violence in Nazi Germany
State Violence in Nazi Germany

Author: Emanuel Marx

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1000735435

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Through analyses of three eventful years in Nazi Germany’s history – the Kristallnacht pogrom, the invasion of Poland and the invasion of Soviet Russia – this book explores the violence of states. All three events were part of the Nazi colonial project and led to mass killings, eventually resulting in the systematic murder of Jews becoming a major war aim – one that Germany would pursue to the end, even when it became clear that the military conflict could no longer be won. Drawing on voluminous historical and sociological literature, as well as documentary and contemporary evidence, the author presents a new account of the phenomenon of extreme state violence as a special category of violence, in which the armed forces, maintained in a state of readiness, are used unnecessarily and excessively, often on thin pretexts, and, unlike coercive violence, only rarely for the purposes of carrying messages to the public. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, history and anthropology concerned with mass and state violence.

Law and Consent
Law and Consent

Author: Karla O'Regan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-28

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0429877358

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Consent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasive understanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy – but has it? Beginning with an overview of consent’s role in law today, this book investigates the doctrine’s inseparable association with personal autonomy and its effect in producing both idealised and demonised forms of personhood and agency. This prompts a search for alternative understandings of consent. Through an exploration of sexual offences in Antiquity, medical practice in the Middle Ages, and the regulation of bodily harm on the present-day sports field, this book demonstrates that, in contrast to its common sense story of autonomy, consent more often operates as an act of submission than as a form of personal freedom or agency. The book explores the implications of this counter-narrative for the law’s contemporary uses of consent, arguing that the kind of freedom consent is meant to enact might be foreclosed by the very frame in which we think about autonomy itself. This book will be of interest to scholars of many aspects of law, history, and feminism as well as students of criminal law, bioethics, and political theory.

Compromise, Peace and Public Justification
Compromise, Peace and Public Justification

Author: Fabian Wendt

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-11

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 3319288776

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This book explores the morality of compromising. The author argues that peace and public justification are values that provide moral reasons to make compromises in politics, including compromises that establish unjust laws or institutions. He explains how it is possible to have moral reasons to agree to moral compromises and he debates our moral duties and obligations in making such compromises. The book also contains discussions of the sources of the value of public justification, the relation between peace and justice, the nature of modus vivendi arrangements and the connections between compromise, liberal institutions and legitimacy. In exploring the morality of compromising, the book thus provides some outlines for a map of political morality beyond justice.

The Violence and Addiction Equation
The Violence and Addiction Equation

Author: Christine Wekerle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1135470693

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The Violence and Addiction Equation is an empirically based book that bridges the relationship between violence and substance addiction with a focus on the overlap of issues. It is a groundbreaking collection of contributions by prominent clinicians in the field, and the timely chapter's include clinical commentary that identifies and elaborates on points of transfer from theory to clinical practice.

Competing and Consensual Voices
Competing and Consensual Voices

Author: Patrick J. M. Costello

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781853592768

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Examines the theory and practice of argument in primary, secondary and tertiary education. The book's coverage includes: the nature, forms and functions of argument, and its role in teaching; and critical analyses of the practice of argument and suggested ways to develop it in educating contexts.

The Criminology of Boxing, Violence and Desistance
The Criminology of Boxing, Violence and Desistance

Author: Deborah Jump

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2021-04-07

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1529203295

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This perceptive study explores the extent to which boxing has the potential to reduce violent attitudes among young offenders. Jump assesses conflicting evidence and presents in-depth case studies of fighters to ask whether boxing’s values of discipline and respect can create a support network that helps young men refrain from reoffending.