Showing results for "Violences" in Social Sciences

A book covering the topic of self-defense from a shocking, firsthand perspective. The subjects of criminal violence, self-defense, lethal force, mindset, firearms training, and concealment have never been introduced so comprehensively in one place.

Veteran international correspondent Alexandra Reeves exposes the dangerous myth of "mutual abuse" in domestic violence, revealing how this false narrative protects abusers while trapping victims. Drawing on thirty years of frontline reporting and a public health lens, she investigates how courts, police, and culture catastrophically misunderstand coercive control and survival responses. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Brought to you by Penguin. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe...

Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy, and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred.

Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most distinctive traits, the one thing that all cultures and societies, across time, share in common. It has defined not only the ways in which individuals relate to each other, but also how collective entities and states have interacted with each other over the millennia. All societies are violent and all individuals have the capacity for violence. However, not all societies and not all individuals are equally violent, and nor does violence exist with the same intensity across cultures.

There is life after domestic violence. Break free now!

Indigenous communities have been organizing against violence since newcomers first arrived, but the cases of missing and murdered women have only recently garnered broad public attention. Violence Against Indigenous Women joins the conversation by analyzing the socially interventionist work of Indigenous women poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and fiction writers.

In many US cities, gun violence is the most urgent crime problem. High rates of deadly violence make a city less livable, dragging down quality of life, economic development, and property values. How can police departments find the right balance between over- and under-policing of high-violence areas? What are the best practices for police to preempt and deter gun violence, while engendering support and cooperation from the public?

Heroes or villains? You decide.... In the 1960s, London’s gangland was ruled by two men: Reggie and Ronnie Kray. Building an empire of crime by intimidation, extortion, and terror on a scale never seen before or since, they feted stars of stage and screen, sportsmen, and even politicians to gain the respectability they craved. Read by acclaimed actor Martin Shaw, this is the true story of their rise and fall.

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score) Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist...

You deserve safety, respect, and peace. The heart of our new podcast series, In Conversations About Family Violence – You Do Not Have To Put Up With It, is hosted by Ms Carmella Acciarito, Principal Lawyer and Founder of DFV Lawyers. This series is designed to inform, empower, and support anyone affected by family violence — as well as the professionals and community members who walk alongside them. Through six thoughtful episodes, Ms Carmella breaks down the realities of family violence in Australia, the legal protections available, and the vital role of police, courts, and support ...

Community leaders and activists Gómez and Arroyo worked with children, teenagers, and parents - both the victims and the bullies - to put together this searing anthology of original essays, poetry, plays, and commentary on how bullying has affected their lives.

A physician’s bold critique of medical rape culture—and her call for a new model of care that centers consent and empowers patients Medical culture has a problem with consent—and it’s not just a few bad doctors. That’s the conclusion of Dr. Zed Zha in Consented, a groundbreaking look...

Brought to you by Penguin. Violence is often regarded as an unavoidable fact of life. The truth is far more hopeful: violence is a disease that can be cured. Drawing on decades spent fighting infectious disease before founding Cure Violence Global, Dr Gary Slutkin shows that violence behaves...

Mexican cartels weaponize violence as calculated strategy, not chaos—from theatrical executions to military-grade territorial battles. Host Alexandra Reeves reveals how brutality functions as governance, propaganda, and power projection, transforming extreme violence into a deliberate language of control. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Alexandra Reeves investigates how Colombia became the global cocaine trade epicenter, exploring criminal empires, political failures, and Cold War geopolitics that transformed the nation into history's most powerful narco-state. Each episode reveals the forces behind the crisis. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Alexandra Reeves exposes how criminal empires recruit, weaponize, and discard cartel enforcers. This series reveals militarized tactics, terror campaigns, and the psychology of loyalty and betrayal—the calculated strategies transforming men into expendable weapons of organized crime. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Alexandra Reeves investigates how Mexican drug cartels evolved from smuggling rings into territorial armies controlling vast swaths of Mexico and operating in over 40 countries. This series explores their military-grade weaponry, global expansion strategies, and infiltration of legitimate industries and political systems. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a 25-foot tidal bore that crashes 80 miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation.

Alexandra Reeves explores how Mexico's Jalisco New Generation Cartel rose to dominance through calculated terror and billion-dollar criminal innovation. Discover the strategy, violence, and global reach that made CJNG the world's most dangerous drug trafficking organization. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai