Violence Editors Carol Martin, Kimmett Edgar and Penny Fraser put set the issue in context.
Violence arouses strong feelings and raises profound moral issues.
It is important to approach the problems of violence from an open, multi-disciplined perspective. In fact, context is her theme. She highlights the tension between research aimed at producing quantitative data and that being undertaken by various ESRC VRP projects which seek to contextualise and explain violent incidents. Violence itself is a problematic term. As Professor Stanko points out, without understanding why or how violence arises it becomes impossible to seek strategies to prevent it, either at an individual or structural level.