Foreword
Walter Schwimmer
Secretary General of the Council of Europe = 9
I. The faces of violence = 11
The spiral of suspicion and anxiety = 11
Violence, crime, terrorism and insecurity = 15
Violence and its territories = 18
Visible and invisible violence = 20
Media globalisation of violence = 22
II. Measuring violence = 29
Unmeasured violence = 29
The need for a European observatory = 31
European figures on violence = 32
III. Institutional responses to violence = 41
Attempting to modernise responses to violence = 41
European police forces = 42
European judicial systems = 47
IV. Violence and personal responsibility = 55
Aspects of the individual = 55
Offenders and punishment = 59
Victims = 63
An active citizenship = 66
Restorative justice or the justice of dialogue = 69
V. The governance of violence = 79
Interdependence = 79
Local coalitions = 80
Coalitions that stimulate projects = 80
Cities and the management 81
The role of local political authority of violence = 83
Constructing the collective response to violence = 85
VI. A world of violence = 89
Freedom and security = 89
Lessons of the international order = 90
What, then, is security today? = 91
To conclude, a question = 92
Walter Schwimmer
Secretary General of the Council of Europe = 9
I. The faces of violence = 11
The spiral of suspicion and anxiety = 11
Violence, crime, terrorism and insecurity = 15
Violence and its territories = 18
Visible and invisible violence = 20
Media globalisation of violence = 22
II. Measuring violence = 29
Unmeasured violence = 29
The need for a European observatory = 31
European figures on violence = 32
III. Institutional responses to violence = 41
Attempting to modernise responses to violence = 41
European police forces = 42
European judicial systems = 47
IV. Violence and personal responsibility = 55
Aspects of the individual = 55
Offenders and punishment = 59
Victims = 63
An active citizenship = 66
Restorative justice or the justice of dialogue = 69
V. The governance of violence = 79
Interdependence = 79
Local coalitions = 80
Coalitions that stimulate projects = 80
Cities and the management 81
The role of local political authority of violence = 83
Constructing the collective response to violence = 85
VI. A world of violence = 89
Freedom and security = 89
Lessons of the international order = 90
What, then, is security today? = 91
To conclude, a question = 92