Collective Violence
| By: | James F., Jr. Short; Marvin E. Wolfgang |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780202362663 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781351527736 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2009 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Collective violence has played an important role throughout American history, though we have typically denied it. But it is not enough to repress violence or to suppress our knowledge of it. We must understand the phenomenon, and to do this, we must learn what violent groups are trying to say. Th at some choose violence tells us something about the perpetrators, inevitably, about ourselves and the society we have built.