Framing Excessive Violence

This book explores the dynamics of excessive violence, using a broad range of interdisciplinary case studies. It highlights that excessive violence depends on various contingencies and is not always the outcome of rational decision making. The contributors also analyse the discursive framing of acts of excessive violence.

The essays of Framing Excessive Violence are timely, helping readers make sense of the (seemingly) unfamiliar violence of 2016. And the paradox that the volume identifies that excessive violence transgresses social and moral codes and yet eventually becomes tamed by them is provocative and worth further exploration. (Jared Del Rosso, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, January, 2017)

Autorentext
Jörn Ahrens, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany Werner Binder, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania, USA Marco Gerster, Konstanz University, Germany Bernhard Giesen, Konstanz University, Germany Michael Günter, Klinikum Stuttgart, Germany Jack Katz, University of California Los Angeles, USA Jan Klabbers, University of Helsinki, Finland Peter Klimczak, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany Steffen Krämer, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany Anne Nassauer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Christer Petersen, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany Sveinung Sandberg, University of Oslo, Norway Ferdinand Sutterlüty, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany Annette Vowinckel, Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany Daniel Ziegler, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

Inhalt

1. Introduction; Marco Gerster, Steffen Krämer and Daniel Ziegler

   PART I. DYNAMICS OF EXCESS

   2. Emotional Dynamics of Violent Situations; Randall Collins

   3. Forward Panic and Police Riots; Anne Nassauer

   4. What the Situation Explains: On Riotous Violence; Ferdinand Sutterlüty

   5. Violence and Emotion; Bernhard Giesen

   6. Neo-Fascist Heroes: Group Identity and Idealisation of the Aggressor in Violent Right-wing Adolescents; Michael Günter

   7. Intimate Massacres: Next Steps Toward a Causal Explanation; Jack Katz

   PART II. DISCOURSE AND IMAGINATION

   8. German Rampage: Social Discourse and the Emergence of a Disturbing Phenomenon; Jörn Ahrens

   9. Amok - Framing Discourses on Political Violence by Means of Symbolic Logic; Peter Klimczak and Christer Petersen

   10. Terrorism as Cultural Bricolage - The Case of Anders Behring Breivik; Sveinung Sandberg

   11. Tales of Abuse and Torture. The Narrative Framing of the Abu Ghraib Photographs; Werner Binder

   12. The (Relative) Absence of Torture in Documentary Photography; Annette Vowinckel

   13. Off Limits? International Law and the Excessive Use of Force; Jan Klabbers