• Interconnected Modernities, Ethnic Relations and Violence - Through exploring the genocidal violence within Rwanda this article highlights the connections that exist between peace and violence, historically, contextually and situationally.

1. Why may violence be deliberately neglected from contemporary sociological research? 
2. How has 'ethnic violence' been framed by academics? 
3. Where does the invisible majority stand in terms of peace and violence?

• Forms of Brutality: Towards a Historical Sociology of Violence - This article comparatively analyses levels of crime within the historical and era to provide a more accurate estimation of the scale of violence today.

1. What is the commonly held view about the relationship between violence and pre-modern and modernity society? 
2. Was interpersonal violence rampant within pre-modern societies? 
3. How have forms of violence changed within modern society? 

• The System Is Not Broken, It Is Intentional: The Prisoner Reentry Industry as Deliberate Structural Violence - This article draws on interviews from formerly incarcerated individuals to argue that the prisoner re-entry industry, traps the formerly incarcerated in a cycle of failure. Through doing so it frames prisons  as a form of structural violence which perpetuates oppression demonstrating the violence may not always be physical.

1. How have American prisons and its systems changed since the 1970s? 
2. According to critical race theory how has America attempted to oppress the Black population? 
3. According to the authors why is the PRI designed to trap formerly incarcerated populations in a cycle of failure?