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Criminal violence is a growing concern for citizens and policymakers across the developing world. Much existing research assumes that victims are resigned to their victimization at the hands of violent criminal actors amid absent or complicit states. Moncada challenges the conventional wisdom and argues that not only do victims resist their victimization, but resistance actually […]

The proliferation of mass-shootings in the USA since the 1960s has produced a character profile of largely unremarkable, middle-class male culprits who transform particular places of civil peace – schools, universities shopping malls – into landscapes of war. On the one hand, the lack of clear motives has led mystified psychiatric experts to draw correlations […]

During his 50-year association with the Village Voice, photographer Fred W. McDarrah (1926–2007) covered the city’s downtown scenes, producing an unmatched and encyclopedic visual record of people, movements, and events. McDarrah captured every vital moment, from Jack Kerouac reading poetry, to Bob Dylan hanging out in Sheridan Square, to Andy Warhol filming in the Factory, […]