Violence, risk and identity: ‘doing gender’ or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives?

Laverick, Wendy

Abstract

We know very little about how people define risk (Tulloch and Lupton 2003, 16). Yet, interest in risk factors contributing to violence continues to be high as professionals search for tools to identify those ‘at-risk’ and seek empirically based intervention strategies that might reduce violent behaviour (Pettit 2004, 194). Risk assessment is however, an inexact science and the methods used still contain serious shortcomings (Doyle and Dolan 2002; Stone 2002). That is despite any limitations regarding the predictive accuracy of risk assessment models and the lack of guaranteed outcomes (Sheldrick, 1999), ‘considerable support can be found for theoretical models positing that life experiences … cumulate to increase the risk of antisocial and violent behaviour (Pettit 2004, 194).

Citation

Laverick, W. (2007). Violence, risk and identity: ‘doing gender’ or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives?. In J. S. Jones, & J. Raisborough (Eds.), Risks, Identities and the Everyday (83-98). Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315606552

• Online Publication Date: Apr 5, 2016
• Publication Date: Nov 28, 2007
• Deposit Date: Aug 16, 2020
• Publisher: Ashgate
• Pages: 83-98
• Book Title: Risks, Identities and the Everyday
• Chapter Number: 6
• ISBN: 9780754685401; 9780754648611; 9780367603595
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315606552
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3558845