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Common Shock: Witnessing Violence Every Day: How We Are Harmed, How We Can Healreviewed by Ronnie Casella - 2005 Title: Common Shock: Witnessing Violence Every Day: How We Are Harmed, How We Can Heal Author(s): Kaethe Weingarten Publisher: New American Library, New York ISBN: 0451212916, Pages: 384, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com Common Shock, by Kaethe Weingarten, takes an atypical approach to the study of violence. She does not focus on the victims of violence, and she does not focus on the perpetrators. She writes for over 300 pages about those who witness violence. In a book that would sit well with parents, people in social services, researchers in psychology, sociology, and medicine, and teachers and school administrators, Weingarten strikes a relaxed tone that draws equally from the her personal experiences, research from a variety of fields, and her own research in countries throughout the worldall on the phenomenon of witnessing violence.
She begins the book with a scenario, which like others is based on her own experience: she had taken a friends 7-year-old daughter to the park. While there, the daughter sees a father smack his son in the head, and the author notices that the daughter is riveted to the... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Ronnie Casella
Central Connecticut State University E-mail Author RONNIE CASELLA is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations and Secondary Education at Central Connecticut State University. He is the author of several books, including “Being Down”: Challenging Violence in Urban Schools and At Zero Tolerance: Punishment, Prevention, and School Violence. He has also published articles in The Urban Review, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Qualitative Inquiry, Teachers College Record, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and other journals. His forthcoming book examines relationships between the security industry and school districts.
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