Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Credits; List of contributors; Introduction: toward a broader social scientific understanding of violence; What is violence?; Organization of the book; Notes; References; PART I: Gathering and analyzing violence data; Introduction to Part I; Notes; References; 1. Crime victimization survey research; Introduction; Victimization surveys outside the United States; Drawbacks of victimization surveys; Why do some victimization surveys produce lower estimates or rates?; Notes; References.

2. Mixed methods in violence studiesIntroduction; Mixed methods research: theory and practice; Promises of mixed methods research on violence; Mixed methods in existing studies of violence; Potential pitfalls for mixed methods research on violence; New directions for research; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3. Using crime surveys as tools of critical insight and progressive change; Introduction; The strengths and limitations of mainstream survey research; Using surveys to buttress the critical criminological imagination; Conclusion; Note; References; 4. Historical methods; Introduction.

Choosing violenceQuantifying violence; Comparative histories of violence; A worrying decline in violence?; Violence not captured in official statistics; New directions and approaches in the history of crime; Conclusion; Note; References; 5. Enhancing the quality of research on understudied populations; Introduction; Issues in prioritizing, identifying, recruiting, and sampling hidden populations; Identifying, recruiting, and sampling hidden populations: what works; References; 6. The caring adult role: avoiding exploitation in youth violence ethnographies; Introduction.

Avoiding exploitative accounts of violenceThe caring adult role; Doing emancipatory research: two strategies for ethnographers; Conclusion; Notes; References; PART II: New ways of thinking theoretically about violence; Introduction to Part II; A short note on linking theory to practice; Note; References; 7. Thinking theoretically about image-based sexual abuse: the contribution of male peer support theory; Image-based sexual abuse: definition, extent, and distribution; Male peer support theory; Conclusion; Declaration of Conflicting Interests; Funding; Notes; References.

8. What's place got to do with it? Explaining violence in a rural contextIntroduction; What is violence: generically speaking?; Deconstructing attempts to explain violence at rural places; Some early studies; Subculture of violence; Social capital, social development, and rural violence; Social disorganization theory; Civic community theory; A recap; Reconstructing an explanation of violence at rural places; Conclusions: theory-based prevention; Note; References; 9. Theoretical perspectives on environmental violence; Introduction; Ecosystems, landscapes and ecocide; Biodiversity and habitat.