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In the age of the Black Lives Matter movement, Basquiat’s work is more relevant than ever. It highlights racial inequality and violence against racialized people.
Watching gun violence on screen can desensitize children to the harm caused by firearms.
Language can provoke violence between groups especially when people paint others as threats.
Support for strong gun ownership rights is often associated with conservative Christian views, but religion and self-defense have a much longer history in the United States.
South Africans would rather see efforts go into tackling other challenges – but climate change will intensify those challenges.
Research shows that removing guns from violent abusers saves lives. But laws doing just that are at risk of being ruled unconstitutional, following a landmark Supreme Court guns case.
Short fiction’s fragmentation reflects its origins as a response to trauma. Two new collections explore the dangers and vulnerability of womanhood, and the global threat of climate change.
Kenyan families with access to mass media are significantly more afraid of terrorism than those without access.
Bret Easton Ellis’s grotesquely violent novel is irreducibly misogynist, racist and homophobic. So was Reagan’s America. It’s less darkly comic satire than deadly serious social diagnostic.
Violence between herdsmen and farmers in the Sahel is nothing new, but in recent years Nigeria has a noticeable upturn in violence.
After a very divisive election campaign, the winner of the Brazilian election will need to reuite the country.
Two academics have identified the perpetrators of a massacre committed in 2013 by Syrian loyalist forces. An episode that says a lot about the reality of Syria in the last 10 years.
Women have assumed different roles in alt-right movements, including organizing protests, spreading misinformation and organizing militias.
Young people who experienced violence between other family members, and had been directly subjected to abuse, were 9.2 times more likely to use violence in the home.
Calls for tougher laws against assaults on teachers have been thwarted by efforts to keep kids in school.
We found 81% of gender-diverse people reported experiencing violence from a coach.
Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis could escalate into a complex disaster emergency with dire environmental consequences.
Long considered a frozen conflict, the Western Sahara dispute roared back to life in late 2020, reviving old wounds and inflicting fresh ones.
A recent jury examining murders of women urged the federal government to add the term femicide and its definition to the Criminal Code.
Top contributors
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Monash 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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Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Professor of Sociology, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University
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Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Co-Director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Gender and Childhood Sexuality, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
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Professor of History, The Open University
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
