Violence and violence-control in long-term perspective: 'Testing' elias in relation to war, genocide, crime, punishment and sport

Abstract

I shall start this chapter by exploring some conceptual issues related to the thorny problem of defining 'violence' and related terms such as 'aggression'. I shall then become more concrete and discuss various manifestations of violence using a long-term perspective.More particularly, I shall discuss aspects of war, genocide, crime, punishment, and violence in and in relation to leisure and sport, basing my arguments mainly on secondary sources. © 2008 Springer-Verlag New York.