Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I Introduction-The Nature of Violence

Chapter 1
Good Violence/Bad Violence:Its Impact on Children and Suggested Responses Robert G. Stevenson

Chapter 2
Violence in the Family: Spirituality/Religion as Culprit and Comfort Reverend Richard B. Gilbert

Chapter 3
Conflict and Violence Within the Workplace: An Existentialist Analysis Neil Thompson

Chapter 4
Violence and the Dehumanization of Victims in Auschwitz and Beyond: Remembering Through Literature Gregory Paul Wegner

Chapter 5
Religious Violence and Weapons of Mass Destruction Timothy Kullman

PART II Encounters with Violence

Chapter 6
Resisting the Magnet: A Study of South African Children's Engagements with Neighborhood Violence Jenny Parkes

Chapter 7
Silent Night, Violent Night: An Encounter With Unexpected Violence Carr Maher

Chapter 8
Hispanic Families and Mass Casualties: The First 48 Hours Fernando Cabrera

Chapter 9
Grief and Guilt in the Military Carr Maher

PART III Empirical Studies

Chapter 10
Characteristics of Homicide: Victimization Across the Life Span Kimberly A. Vogt

Chapter 11
Grief and Attachment Within the Context of Family Violence Kimberly A. Rapoza and Kathleen Malley-Morrison

Chapter 12
Bereavement Following Violent Death: An Assault on Life and Meaning Joseph M. Currier, Jason M. Holland, Rachel A. Coleman, and Robert A. Neimeyer

Chapter 13
Violence in Our Own Backyard: September 11th Revisited Barbara Melamed

PART IV Alternatives to Violence/Coping with Violence

Chapter 14
Making and Breaking Cycles of Violence Colin Murray Parkes

Chapter 15
Coping with Violent Death: The Role of Spirituality Gerry R. Cox

Chapter 16
From Violence to Peace: Posthomicide Memorials Inge Corless and Phyllis R. Silverman

Chapter 17
Talk it Out! Walk it Out! Wait it Out! Take Ten: An Intercultural Approach to Creating Safer Schools Kim Overdyke and Jay Caponigro

Appendix A Violence: A Statement of Assumptions and Principles (IWG)

Appendix B Summary of Guidelines, Protocols, and Procedures

Appendix C Bibliography Dick Gilbert

Contributors

Index