The Psychology of Hate Crimes as Domestic Terrorism

The Psychology of Hate Crimes as Domestic Terrorism
Author: Edward W. Dunbar
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 889
Release: 2016-11-21
Genre: Law
ISBN:

In this three-volume set, an international team of experts involved in the research, management, and mitigation of hate-motivated violence examines and explains hate crimes in the United States and around the globe, drawing comparisons between countries as well as between hate crimes overall and domestic terrorism. The Psychology of Hate Crimes as Domestic Terrorism: U.S. and Global Issues takes a hard look at hate crimes both domestically and internationally, enabling readers to see similarities and disparities as well as to make the connections between hate crimes and domestic terrorism. The entries in this three-volume set discuss subjects such as the psychology and motivation in hate crimes, the cultural norms that shape tolerance of outgroups or tolerance of hate, and the fact that hate crimes are a pervasive form of domestic terrorism, as well as myriad issues of proliferation, public policy, policing, law and punishment, and prevention. The set opens with an introduction that discusses hate crime research and examines issues of identification of the bias element of hate crimes via empirical and case vignettes. The subsequent chapters discuss subjects such as the socio-demographic profiles of hate crime offenders; hate crime legislation and policy in the United States; the effects of hate crime on their victims as well as society; the incidence of hate crime in specific regions, such as Europe, the Middle East, and South America; and programs and therapeutic interventions to heal victims. Readers will also learn how specific educational approaches in communities, schools, and universities can be implemented to help prevent future escalation of hate-motivated violence.

Poder, ideología y violencia

Poder, ideología y violencia
Author: Ignacio Martín-Baró
Publisher: Trotta
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2003
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

Si el pasado siglo fue considerado por Hannah Arendt como el siglo más cruel de la historia, los datos que nos viene ofreciendo el actual no anuncian precisamente una corrección a esta tendencia. No va a resultar fácil superar la marca de dos guerras mundiales, pero cabe holgadamente la posibilidad de que el número de personas que caigan víctimas de las diversas modalidades de violencia no tenga nada que envidiar a las del siglo pasado. Es la herencia más sombría que legamos a las generaciones venideras. Ignacio Martín-Baró vivió en una sociedad en la que la violencia pasó a formar parte del mismo ordenamiento social, vivió en un medio que, entre otros, encontró en la cultura de la violencia uno de sus más sólidos soportes, vivió en un país estremecido por una guerra civil durante una década. Por esa razón, una de sus trayectorias intelectuales más continuadas estuvo dirigida a dar respuesta a este fenómeno, haciéndolo desde un marco epistemológico en el que el principio de realidad histórica se impone como punto de partida y como marco para el análisis de cualquier manifestación del comportamiento humano, y en el que la acción violenta se ve acompañada siempre de un fondo ideológico que la sostiene, que la dirige, que le da sentido, que la cubre y la adorna de significados, que la justifica y hasta la legitima.

A Borderlands View on Latinos, Latin Americans, and Decolonization

A Borderlands View on Latinos, Latin Americans, and Decolonization
Author: Pilar Hernández-Wolfe
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0765709325

Latinos in the U.S. and Latin Americans are a combination of diverse populations that differ on a range of factors including, length of time in the country, migration background, ethnicity, geographical location, socio-economic status and so on. The reader will find perspectives of those of us who live in the borderlands—that is, those of us whom Gloria Anzaldúa identified as Mestiz@s, who inhabit the intersticios, the spaces in between souls, minds, identities, and geographies. This book assists new generations of Latino/as and of those involved in Latino Culture and Latin America in understanding how the colonization of the Americas is still tied to current issues of migration from the South to the North and how mental health practices have been maintained, emerged and created out of the wound of coloniality. It offers a rich and alternative foundation for approaching trauma, identity, and resilience through the integration of a decolonization paradigm, borderlands theory, and social justice approaches in couple and family therapy.

Handbook of Critical Psychology

Handbook of Critical Psychology
Author: Ian Parker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2015-04-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317537181

Choice Recommended Read Critical psychology has developed over time from different standpoints, and in different cultural contexts, embracing a variety of perspectives. This cutting-edge and comprehensive handbook values and reflects this diversity of approaches to critical psychology today, providing a definitive state-of-the-art account of the field and an opening to the lines of argument that will take it forward in the years to come. The individual chapters by leading and emerging scholars plot the development of a critical perspective on different elements of the host discipline of psychology. The book begins by systematically addressing each separate specialist area of psychology, before going on to consider how aspects of critical psychology transcend the divisions that mark the discipline. The final part of the volume explores the variety of cultural and political standpoints that have made critical psychology such a vibrant contested terrain of debate. The Handbook of Critical Psychology represents a key resource for researchers and practitioners across all relevant disciplines. It will be of particular interest to students and researchers in psychology, psychosocial studies, sociology, social anthropology and cultural studies, and to discourse analysts of different traditions, including those in critical linguistics and political theory.

Psychosocial Approaches to Peace-Building in Colombia

Psychosocial Approaches to Peace-Building in Colombia
Author: Stella Sacipa-Rodriguez
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2014-03-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3319045490

This edited volume summarizes the work of a research group, called Social Bonds and Cultures of Peace that accompanies and supports victims of socio-political violence in Columbia. The individual chapters focus on the ongoing violence in the Colombian context, a complex and dynamic area in which various groups (drug traffickers, national armed forces, guerrilla fighters, self-defence groups) have been engaged in organized violence for more than 60 years. Emphasis is placed on the psychological consequences of violence and various forms of psychosocial support that psychologists have been providing to the victims of violence. Central to their work is the notion of "accompanying" those who have been victims of violence, listening to them, engaging them in dialogue and working together to strengthen the resources of victims. The recovery of individual and collective memories of atrocities is discussed as an important avenue for healing and for the empowerment of individuals and groups. The solidarity among victims creates opportunities at the grassroots level to pursue truth, reveal perpetrators of violence, seek public acknowledgment and attain social justice. For perpetrators of violence and members of armed groups, the book addresses a host of psychosocial issues related to disarming, demobilizing and reintegrating former combatants, including children, into society. Throughout the book, in the spirit of peace psychology, the researchers are engaged in a form of praxis that is cognizant of the wider geohistorical context within which victims and perpetrators are embedded and the dialectical relationship between micro and macro-level events and change. Researchers in Latin American studies, peace psychology, social justice and transitional justice, will find this volume to be an excellent resource.

Handbook of Research on Promoting Peace Through Practice, Academia, and the Arts

Handbook of Research on Promoting Peace Through Practice, Academia, and the Arts
Author: Lutfy, Mohamed Walid
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2018-09-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1522530029

Academic disciplines perceive tranquility and a sense of contentment differently among themselves and therefore contribute to peace-building initiatives differently. Peace is not merely a function of education or a tool that produces amicable systems, but rather a concept that educational contributions can help societies progress to a more peaceful existence. The Handbook of Research on Promoting Peace Through Practice, Academia, and the Arts aims to provide readers with a concise overview of proactive positive peace models and practices to counter the overemphasis on merely ending wars as a solution. While approaching peace-building through multiple vantage points and academic fields such as the humanities, arts, social sciences, and theology, this valuable resource promotes peace-building as a cooperative effort. This publication is a vital reference work for humanitarian workers, leaders, educators, policymakers, academicians, undergraduate and graduate-level students, and researchers.

Human Rights Violations in Latin America

Human Rights Violations in Latin America
Author: Elizabeth Lira
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2022-05-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030975428

A timely contribution to the study of peace psychology in Latin America, this volume describes clinical, psychosocial, and community interventions with victims from Mexico to Chile from the 1970s onward. Chapters analyze how to conceptualize complex processes such as the appropriation of children and political repression, raising psychological, juridical, and political implications for the victims, their families, human rights organizations, and society. Also included are studies and analyses of political processes in countries currently undergoing crises such as Venezuela and Colombia and the challenges posed by the peace process from a political psychology perspective. All authors present the results of studies or clinical cases illustrating creative methodologies and practices in different contexts. This book provides the context for differences in the victims' damages and the treatment approaches and methodologies adopted in each case. The authors outline psychological perspectives grounded in ethical and professional choices based on recognizing people's dignity while seeking rehabilitation and reparations for victims, families, and communities. It paves the way for reparations and rehabilitation, and ultimately to the establishment of democracy and peace in this part of the world. Readers will benefit from understanding the relationship between mental health and human rights understanding ethical and professional dimensions a broadened knowledge of working with victims

Survival Songs

Survival Songs
Author: Stephanie Sieburth
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2014-08-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1442661453

How can a song help the hungry and persecuted to survive? Stephanie Sieburth’s Survival Songs explores how a genre of Spanish popular music, the copla, as sung by legendary performer Conchita Piquer, helped Republican sympathizers to survive the Franco regime’s dehumanizing treatment following the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). Piquer’s coplas were sad, bitter stories of fallen women, but they offered a way for the defeated to cope with chronic terror, grief, and trauma in the years known as the “time of silence.” Drawing on the observations of clinical psychotherapy, Sieburth explores the way in which listening to Piquer’s coplas enabled persecuted, ostracized citizens to subconsciously use music, role-play, ritual, and narrative to mourn safely and without fear of repercussion from the repressive state. An interdisciplinary study that includes close readings of six of Piquer’s most famous coplas, Survival Songs will be of interest to specialists in modern Spanish studies and to clinical psychologists, musicologists, and those with an interest in issues of trauma, memory, and human rights.

The Coup and the Palm Trees

The Coup and the Palm Trees
Author: Andrés León Araya
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2023-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820367435

“If they are going to kill us anyway, we might as well die in our lands.” With these words and a shrug of shoulders, a leader of the Unified Peasant Movement of the Aguán (MUCA) explains their decision to occupy more than 20,000 hectares of oil palm plantations in the Bajo Aguán region in Northern Honduras after the military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, 2009. The Coup under the Palm Trees interrogates the Honduran present, through an exploration of the country’s spatiotemporal trajectory of agrarian change since the mid-twentieth century. It tells the double history of how the Aguán region went from a set of “empty” lands to the centerpiece of the country’s agrarian reform in the 1980s and a central site for the palm oil industry and drug trade, while a militarized process of state formation took place between the coups of 1963 and 2009. Rather than a case of failed democratic transition, the book shows how the current Honduran crisis—exemplified by massive outmigration towards the United States, blatant narco-state links, and the 2009 coup—is better understood within longer historical processes in which violence, exclusion, and dispossession became the central organizational principles of the state.

Quality of Life in Communities of Latin Countries

Quality of Life in Communities of Latin Countries
Author: Graciela Tonon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2017-03-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319531832

This book presents a reconfiguration of the concepts of community in Latin countries as well as the community quality of life and well-being of different groups: children, young people, older adults, migrants. The traditional concept of community has changed together with the way people participate in community spaces. Community nowadays is more than a geographic concentration; it is related to social support, inter-subjectivity, participation, consensus, common beliefs, joint effort aiming at a major objective, and intense and extensive relationships. This volume presents unique experiences about culture, social development, health, water, armed conflicts, the digital media, and sports within communities, written by authors from Latin countries. This volume is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and policy makers in quality of life studies.