Books in the Violence Studies series

Gender and Violence in Spanish Culture: From Vulnerability to Accountability articulates a construction of the victim as a subject that reflects and acts upon his/her experience and vulnerability, and also adopt perspectives that frame accountability within the representational tradition, the community and the state.

Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity provides a new way of understanding parricides by analyzing the behavior of offenders and victims at the scene of the crime in relation to the sources of conflict. This book examines the conflict between parents and their offspring across the life course and argues that parricides are shaped by factors such as respect, defense, and self-identity.

***NOW IN PAPERBACK*** This book explores the hidden curriculum of American culture that is rooted in perceived inequality and the shame, rage, and violence that it provokes.

This book is the first critical analysis of violent extremism via the lens of pedagogical development that considers the nation as an all-encompassing learning environment. Flores gives a voice to important social issues that are largely being ignored in contemporary society.