...: the ‘civilizing process’. The article then moves on to consider the applicability of insights from the incipient ultra-realist criminological perspective. The article suggests that the ultra-realist concept of the ‘pseudo-pacification process’ provides a useful means of furthering our understanding of these rises...

... from long-term declines included the effect of warfare on the legitimization of individual violence ( Archer and Gartner, 1976 ) (Elias’ de-civilization process and de-sensitization to violence), the early phases of rapid urbanization and industrialization ( Shelley, 1981 ; Elias’ “period...

.... Victorian Studies class civilizing process materialism nineteenth century labour geography Peter K. Andersson deliberately challenges complacency and established norms in Victorian Studies in his essay ‘How Civilized Were the Victorians?’. The scholarly debate that followed online shows how his bold...

... in comparison with the latter? The ongoing study of Victorian bourgeois novels, journalism, and political processes from the perspective of Foucauldian disciplinary power or governmentality, or through the prism of the Eliasian civilizing process will hardly generate surprising results anymore. Although some...

... hypothesized by some historians of crime. Thus, many scholars have found Norbert Elias's (1969) Theory of the Civilizing Process a valuable framework for understanding historical change in violence ( Carter Wood 2004 ; Rousseaux 1996 ; Spierenburg 2008 ; 2008 ; Wiener 2004 ). It assumes...