This presentation was made at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology conference in Norfolk, VA in 2018. It provides an introduction to a course designed to reduce violence in the lives of children. It also explores the roots of a pedagogy designed to link student experiences as children with their learning of social science of child maltreatment following the… Read more →
Category: Writings About Violence
Enlightened Witness: Reasserting Humanity in the Face of Violence at the Beginning of the 21st Century – 2004 (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko)
Abstract This paper builds on the foundational work of two great humanists who provide transformative lessons from confrontations with violence: Elie Wiesel who confronts the death camps of Nazi Germany and Alice Miller who confronts the ‘poisonous pedagogy’ of childhood discipline. On this foundation, we explore ways to incorporate these humanizing processes and transformative lessons for our students into three… Read more →
Interdisciplinary Contributions to The Understanding of Child Maltreatment – 2010 (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko)
Abstract: Interdisciplinarity at its core involves epistemologically reconceptualizing a problem and challenging discipline/s within which the problem is embedded. This paper attempts to show how research on child maltreatment within disciplines can be integrated within the context of new paradigm that epistemologically challenges the prevailing traditional paradigm within individual disciplines and reconceptualizes the problem of child maltreatment, leading to new insights… Read more →
Stress, Change and Collective Violence in Prison 1982
Law Reform, Child Maltreatment and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – 2016 (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko and Ian Bolling)
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS “Law Reform, Child Maltreatment and the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child”, Karen A. Polonko, PhD; Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA, USA; kpolonko@odu.edu; Lucien X. Lombardo, PhD. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA,USA, llombard@odu.edu; Ian Bolling, MA, JD, Tidewater Community College, Norfolk, VA USA, ibolling@odu.edu Abstract Scholars and practitioners stress the need for… Read more →
Senior Scholar Presentation: My Journey With Violence 2006
November 2006 This presentation was for colleagues in the College of Arts and Letters at Old Dominion University, November 2006. The presentation describes the things that lead me to study and try to understand the topics of prisons, violence, violence and children. It links my academic work to a need to understand that was never just academic! Read more →
Attica Remembered: 1996
Abstract This essay is a personal and intellectual autobiographical analysis ofthe roots and dynamics of the development and conclusion of acultural icon in the history of American prisons, the Attica PrisonRebellion. In 1971 Attica Prison in New York State became the blood spilled by agents of the government in the retaking of the prison. This personal essay about the Attica… Read more →
Peace Education and Childhood: Helping Adults Connect with their Childhoods to Connect with Children – 2015 (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko)
Peace studies and peace education are multifaceted processes focusing on diverse audiences from children in elementary grades to those involved in political negotiations at the highest levels. This paper addresses the foundational importance of including conflict embedded in adult-child relationships in peace education.It conceptually grounds assignments for university level courses designed to teach concepts linked to peace education through the… Read more →