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Children and violence

Here are entered works on children's experiences with, conceptions of, and reactions to violence. Works on children's violent behavior are entered under Violence in children.

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• Violence

• Violence in children

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• Children and violence -- United States

• Violence and children

• Dying to Entertain: Violence on Prime Time Broadcast Television, 1998 to 2006 (Alexandria, VA, and Los Angeles: Parents Television Council, 2007), by Caroline Schulenberg (PDF at parentstv.org)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Community Members Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Rescue Workers Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Parents Can Do (2013), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (multiple formats with commentary at NIH)
• The Emotional Life of Nations, by Lloyd DeMause (HTML at psychohistory.com)
• Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, by Graça Machel (HTML with commentary at UNICEF)

• For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence (fourth edition, 2002), by Alice Miller, trans. by Hildegarde Hannum and Hunter Hannum (HTML with commentary at nospank.net)

• Music Violence: How Does it Affect our Children: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, November 6, 1997 (Washington: GPO, 1998), by United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General (2001), by United States Public Health Service (HTML at surgeongeneral.gov)
• Into the Abyss: A Personal Journey Into the World of Street Gangs, by Michael K. Carlie (HTML at Missouri State)

• Teaching Peace: How to Raise Children to Live in Harmony, Without Fear, Without Prejudice, Without Violence (1995), by Jan Arnow (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2020), ed. by Sara Polak and Daniel Trottier (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact and Propaganda (from the 1973 edition, with a followup on its suppression), by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, contrib. by Richard A. Falk (HTML with commentary at chomsky.info)
• La Violence en Droit Criminel Romain (in French; Paris: Librairie Plon, 1915), by Jean Coroï (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Algeria: Civilian Population Caught in a Spiral of Violence (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF files at amnesty.org)

• Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004), ed. by Jo-Marie Burt and Philip Mauceri (page images at Pitt)

• Brazil, Corumbiara and Eldorado de Carajás: Rural Violence, Police Brutality and Impunity (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Brazil, Corumbiara and Eldorado de Carajás: Rural Violence, Police Brutality and Impunity (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Brazil, Corumbiara and Eldorado de Carajás: Rural Violence, Police Brutality and Impunity (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Brazil, Corumbiara and Eldorado de Carajás: Rural Violence, Police Brutality and Impunity (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), ed. by Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• Violent Conflict in the 21st Century: Causes, Instruments, and Mitigation (1999), ed. by Charles F. Hermann, Harold K. Jacobson, and Anne Simon Moffat (PDF at amacad.org)

• Social Movements, Violence, and Change: The May Movement in Curaçao (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1975), by William A. Anderson and Russell R. Dynes (PDF at Ohio State)

• From Madness to Hope: The 12-Year War in El Salvador: Report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador (1993), by United Nations Commission on the Truth (HTML at derechos.org)

• Mr. Tasker's Gods (originally published 1925; reprinted 1972), by Theodore Francis Powys (multiple formats at Faded Page)

• Kenya, Violations of Human Rights: Communications Between Amnesty International and the Government of Kenya (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Systemic Injustice: Torture, "Disappearance," and Extrajudicial Execution in Mexico, by Joel Solomon (HTML at hrw.org)

• Toward a Theory of Peace: The Role of Moral Beliefs (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2020), by Randall Forsberg, ed. by Matthew Evangelista and Neta Crawford (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Anarchism and Violence, by L. S. Bevington (HTML at Indiana)

• Human Remains and Violence (full serial archives)

• Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida (originally published 2002; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Hent de Vries (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Nonviolence in Hawaii's Spiritual Traditions (1991), ed. by Glenn D. Paige and Sarah Gilliatt (PDF files at globalnonviolence.org)

• Rwanda: Ending the Silence (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Civil Society, Conflict and Violence: Insights from the CIVICUS Civil Society Index Project (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), ed. by Regina List and Wolfgang Dörner (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)

• Understanding and Preventing Violence (4 volumes; Washington: National Academy Press, 1993-1994), ed. by Albert J. Reiss and Jeffrey A. Roth
  • Volume 1: page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume 2 (Biobehavioral Influences): page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume 3 (Social Influences): page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume 4 (Consequences and Control): page images with commentary at NAP
• The Politics of Protest (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States Task Force on Demonstrations, Protests, and Group Violence, contrib. by Jerome H. Skolnick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Skinheads: Who They Are and What to Do When They Come to Town (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 1990), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at ajcarchives.org)
• Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review (2004), by National Research Council Committee to Improve Research Information and Data on Firearms, ed. by Charles F. Wellford, John Pepper, and Carol Petrie (HTML and page images at NAP)

• The Primer: Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities (2006), by Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office (PDF at utah.gov)

• Domestic Violence Handbook: A Survivor's Guide (revised edition, 2008), by Crime and Violence Prevention Center (Calif.) (PDF at ojp.gov)

• "Trivial Complaints": The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law And activism in the U.S. (c2008), by Kirsten S. Rambo (HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

• Helping Traumatized Children Learn: Supportive School Environments for Children Traumatized by Family Violence (Boston: Massachusetts Advocates for Children, c2005), by Susan F. Cole, Jessica Greenwald O'Brien, M. Geron Gadd, Joel Ristuccia, D. Luray Wallace, and Michael Gregory (PDF at traumasensitiveschools.org)

• Aegis: Magazine on Ending Violence Against Women (issues online 1978-1987) (partial serial archives)

• Auto Defensa Para Mujeres (in Spanish; Buenos Aires: Ediciones Degeneradas, ca. 2005) (page images at qzap.org)

• Crime and the Family (Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas, c1985), by Alan Jay Lincoln and Murray A. Straus (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence (second edition; Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2018), by Kristen Selleck, Jeannie Newman, and Debra Gilmore (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003), by H. Lien Bragg (PDF at govinfo.gov)

• Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era (New York and London: New York University Press, c2011), by Amory Starr, Luis A. Fernandez, and Christian Scholl (PDF and EPub with commentary at OAPEN)

• Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century (Bielefield: Transcript Verlag, 2016), by Markus Nehl (PDF at oapen.org)
• Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Sharon Stockton (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006), by Debarati Sanyal (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, c2005), by Lisa A. Surridge (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.