International Handbook of Violence Research
An international manual is like a world cruise: a once-in-a-lifetime experience. All the more reason to consider carefully whether it is necessary. This can hardly be the case if previous research in the selected field has already been the subject of an e
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International Handbook of Violence Research
Edited by
Wilhelm Heitmeyer and
John Hagan
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.Y.
A c.l.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-1-4020-3980-5 ISBN 978-0-306-48039-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-0-306-48039-3
Printed on acid-free paper
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Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2003 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover Ist edition 2003 No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission [rom the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.
Preface
An international manual is like a world cruise: a once-in-a-lifetime experience. All the more reason to consider carefully whether it is necessary. This can hardly be the case if previous research in the selected field has already been the subject of an earlier review-or even several competing surveys. On the other hand, more thorough study is necessary if the intensity and scope of research are increasing without comprehensive assessments. That was the situation in Western societies when work began on this project in the summer of 1998. It was then, too, that the challenges emerged: any manual, especially an international one, is a very special type of text, which is anything but routine. It calls for a special effort: the "state of the art" has to be documented for selected subject areas, and its presentation made as compelling as possible. The editors were delighted, therefore, by the cooperation and commitment shown by the eighty-one contributors from ten countries who were recruited to write on the sixty-two different topics, by the constructive way in which any requests for changes were dealt with, and by the patient response to our many queries. This volume is the result of a long process. It began with the first drafts outlining the structure of the work, which were submitted to various distinguished colleagues. Friedheim Neidhardt of Berlin, Gertrud Nunner-Winkler of Munich, and Roland Eckert of Trier, to name only a few, supplied valuable comments at this stage. A working group set up by the Interdisciplinary Institute for Conflict and Violence Research developed the draft into a form that was discussed in the spring of 1999 by Wilhelm Heitmeyer and John Hagan (who was then still working in Toronto). Invitations to contributors were then sent out-successfully, as this compilation demonstrates. The complexity of this project was further increased by the fact that we had planned from the outset to publish as nearly simultaneously as possible in German and in English. This meant that, even while the chapters were still being written and revised, they also had to be translated, into German or Engl
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