Citation

Contexts 2007; 6(2): 28-34.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, American Sociological Association, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1525/ctx.2007.6.2.28

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Contexts sponsored a special forum at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Montreal last summer. We asked several experts to discuss various forms of mass murder, their causes, and possible means of prevention. The panelists were Katherine S. Newman, coauthor of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings; Michael Mann, author of The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing; Randall Collins, author of the forthcoming study, Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory of Antagonistic Confrontations; and James Ron, author of Frontiers and Ghettos: State Violence in Serbia and Israel and coauthor of “what shapes the west's human rights focus?” (Contexts, Summer 2006).