Knife crime incidents are individual tragedies, but rising homicide rates reveal a changing society which is ill at ease.
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France’s #MeToo backlash has revealed just how deeply rooted sexism is in the country. Disguised as flirtation or child’s play, sexual harassment begins as early as elementary school.
Terrorism hasn’t always been associated with individuals – in the past, it has described violence used by the state against its subjects.
Thirty-seven-year-old Nayib Bukele is the first modern president who doesn’t represent either of El Salvador’s two mainstream parties. Can he fix what ails this troubled Central American country?
The Mexican slow-down in life expectancy improvements coincides with an unprecedented rise in violence.
Many of the crime prevention strategies South African President Cyril Ramaphosa proposed have been tried, with few positive results.
Kaduna State in Nigeria has been the scene of ethnic and religious violence for years and there seems to be no end in sight.
Women in prison with brain injury are at increased risk of substance abuse, poor mental health and suicide. Yet support for these women is scant.
President López Obrador campaigned on some outside-the-box ideas to ‘pacify’ Mexico after 12 years of extreme violence. But so far his government has emphasized traditional law-and-order policies.
Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales is defying a constitutional court order to release a UN-backed prosecutor his government arrested and allow his corruption investigation to continue.
American military personnel must pass a fitness for duty exam before they serve. Nuclear weapons handlers undergo a rigorous screening process. Shouldn’t the president also undergo such exams?
A recent spate of attacks have left local people scared for their safety in rural Madagascar, threatening vital conservation work in the nearby rainforest.
The UN has declared all violence against children a violation of human rights. But it still happens even in schools.
The Australian justice system must do more to acknowledge the colonial system on which it is built, which inherently privileges whiteness.
With internet platforms and social media increase our access to direct, unedited and unfiltered media coverage. This has been used to great effect to deliberately distort our understanding of events.
Hysterical narratives promoting fear among some Americans may be more effective at sparking violence than hate speech is. Social media companies are expected to guard against both.
The University of Reading wrongly judged that Geras’ essay, which discusses political violence, might fall foul of the government’s Prevent strategy.
Mass murders like the killings at a Pittsburgh synagogue are seen as the work of disturbed individuals. But America has allowed violence to become unexceptional, ignoring its root cause.
Serious violence is rising, and there’s little more that police can do to stop it. Of course, the real culprits are cutbacks to the nation’s social protection systems.
Many young men still believe in traditional ideals of manhood, including fighting back when pushed, never saying no to sex and maintaining dominance over women.
Top contributors
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Professor of Violence Prevention and Addiction Studies, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Co-Director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
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Professor of Sociology, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Professor Gender and Childhood Sexuality, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
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Professor of Family Violence Prevention, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University
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Emeritus Professor Monash University, Monash University