Violence and the Law (Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology) - Softcover

Costanzo, Mark; Oskamp, Stuart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803953429 ISBN 13: 9780803953420

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1994

Synopsis

The nature of violence, the factors that contribute to violence, and the consequences of violence on victims and communities are investigated in this volume, which focuses on how the United States legal system has dealt with violent crime.

The contributors describe the incidence and prevalence of particular forms of violence and cover a broad range of topics including: child abuse; gun control; violence towards homosexuals; rape survivors; police brutality; battered women; gang violence; and the death penalty.

About this title

About the Author:

Stuart Oskamp (Ph.D., Stanford University) has focused his research interests in the areas of attitudes and attitude change, applied social psychology, behavioral aspects of energy and resource conservation, and social issues and public policy. His books include Attitudes and Opinions and Applied Social Psychology. He has been elected a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Council of Representatives and President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) and of the APA Division of Population and Environmental Psychology. He has also served as editor of the Journal of Social Issues and of the Applied Social Psychology Annual. Since 1984 he has organized the Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology and co-edited the resulting annual volume published for many years by Sage Publications and now published by Erlbaum.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0803953429
• ISBN 13: 9780803953420
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 295