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Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multicultural Approach situates violence within a social, cultural, and historical context. Edited by distinguished scholars Barbara C. Wallace and Robert T. Carter, this unique volume explores historical factors, socialization influences, and the historical and contemporary dynamics between the oppressed and the oppressor. State-of-the-art research guides a diverse group of psychologists, educators, policy-makers, religious leaders, community members, victims, and perpetrators in finding viable solutions to violence.
Political Torture in South Africa: Psychological Considerations in the Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Survivors
Political Torture in South Africa: Psychological Considerations in the Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Survivors
During the apartheid era in South Africa, White domination was maintained by violent suppression of any opposition to the government. A variety of laws passed by the Whites-only legislature bestowed on the police and military forces the power of unhindered persecution of members of the liberation movement and their sympathizers. Various methods were used to suppress opposition to the racist and undemocratic status quo. Thousands of activists were subjected to detention without trial, imprisonment, house arrest, exile, and banishment to remote rural areas and were banned from public appearances.
Not satisfied with simply silencing the calls for ...
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