This guide briefly lays out the background sources and journal indexes for a variety of academic fields which have developed explanations for violent behavior.
The encyclopedias provide brief overview articles and reccommended titles for further reading.
The indexes allow you to find recent journal articles on specific topics
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ICPR 281 : Violence and Public Health Resources (HC)
Assignment: Elaboration of an Alternative Theory on Violence:
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Indexes
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
This index covers all academic disciplines; it is especially good for a quick survey of likely literature, especially if you are interested in cross-disciplinary areas like sociobiology.
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
Anthropology:
Encyclopedias
Companion encyclopedia of anthropology
Publisher: London ; Routledge, 2002.
See the essay "Collective Violence and Common Security" by Robert A. Rubinstein, pages 983-1009.
International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Elsevier, 2001.
See in particualr "Violence in Anthropology" by K. B. Warren, pages 16202-16206.
Indexes
Anthropology plus
Provides abstracts on journal articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries in many fields including social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; archaeology, ethnology, folklore and interdisciplinary studies. Covers the late 19th century-present.
AnthroSource
Provides full text articles from American Anthropological Association journals, newsletters, and bulletins. Covers 1888-present.
Behavioral Psychology:
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of psychology
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association ; 2000.
See "Violence and Aggression" by Craig A. Anderson, pp. 162-169.
See also the related entries in the set which are mentioned at the end of the article including "Family Violence" and "Violence Risk Assessment."
See also the related entries in the set which are mentioned at the end of the article including "Family Violence" and "Violence Risk Assessment."
Violence in America
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1999.
See "Theories of Violence: Psychology" by Laura A. Baker, pp. 322-324.
Indexes
PsycINFO
Provider: CSA
Provides abstracts of journals, books, book chapters, technical reports and dissertations. Areas covered include psychology and related disciplines, sociology, linguistics, education, medicine, law, physiology, business, psychiatry, and anthropology. Covers 1887-present.
Political Philosophy:
Encyclopedias
Violence in America
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1999.
See "Theories of Violence: Philosophy" by Howard McGary, pp. 315-317.
"Theories of Violence: Political and Social Sciences" by Michael J. Webber and Jennifer Turpin, pp. 317-322.
"Theories of Violence: Political and Social Sciences" by Michael J. Webber and Jennifer Turpin, pp. 317-322.
Encyclopedia of activism and social justice
Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2007.
See "Violence, Theories of" by Dogan Göçmen, pp. 1438-1440.
Indexes
Philosopher's index
Holdings:
Coverage from: 1940-
Publisher: Bowling Green, OH : Philosopher's Information Center ;
Provider: CSA
Provides citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, anthology contributions and book reviews published worldwide. Topics covered include: ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. Covers 1940-present. Contains over 328,000 records as of August 2005. Monitors over 550 journals from more than 40 countries.
Worldwide political science abstracts
Provider: CSA
Provides citations and abstracts of journals in political science and related fields including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Covers 1975-present.
Sociobiology:
Encyclopedias
Violence in America
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1999.
See "Sociobiology" by Anthony Walsh, pp. 177-183.
"Theories of Violence: Biology" by Laura A. Baker, pp. 307-311.
"Theories of Violence: Biology" by Laura A. Baker, pp. 307-311.
Indexes
Sociological abstracts
Holdings:
1963-
Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,
Provider: CSA
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers in the fields of sociology, social work and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Records added after 1972 contain in-depth abstracts of journal articles. Covers 1963-present.
Web of science
Provider: ISI
Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Search for scholarly articles by topic.