Global burden of armed violence 2011 lethal encounters

Disaggregating lethal violenceReducing armed violence, enabling development -- ch. One A Unified Approach to Armed Violence -- Why a unified perspective? -- Obstacles to a unified perspective -- Neither war nor peace: armed violence in contemporary conflicts -- Neither peace nor war: violence in pos...

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Weitere Verfasser: Krause, Keith (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge u.a. Cambridge Univ. Press 2011
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Zusammenfassung:Disaggregating lethal violenceReducing armed violence, enabling development -- ch. One A Unified Approach to Armed Violence -- Why a unified perspective? -- Obstacles to a unified perspective -- Neither war nor peace: armed violence in contemporary conflicts -- Neither peace nor war: violence in post- and non-conflict settings -- Conclusion: a unified approach to armed violence -- Abbreviations -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- ch. Two Trends and Patterns of Lethal Violence -- Explaining the framework -- Explaining the data sources -- Lethal violence 2004-09: a snapshot -- Trends in lethal violence, 2004-09 -- Violent deaths: the missing pieces? -- Disaggregating unintentional homicide -- Killings during legal interventions and extrajudicial executions -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- ch. Three Characteristics of Armed Violence -- Contextualizing homicide -- Contextualizing homicide by region -- Homicide context and firearm use -- Homicide context and the law enforcement response -- Homicide and criminal justice system performance -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- ch. Four When the Victim is a Woman -- Disaggregating homicide by sex -- Characteristics of femicide -- Hidden forms of lethal violence against women -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- ch. Five More Armed Violence, Less Development -- Conceptualizing the relationship -- Assessing the relationship -- Reviewing the relationship -- Monitoring the relationship -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Endnotes.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
At head of title: Geneva Declaration. - Editors: Keith Krause, Robert Muggah, Elisabeth Gilgen. - Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:XVI, 175 S.
Ill., graph Darst., Kt.
21 cm
ISBN:9781107023079
978-1-107-02307-9
9781107606791
978-1-107-60679-1