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| List of Illustrations and Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Micro-sociology of Violent Confrontations | |
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| Violent Situations | |
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| Micro-evidence: Situational Recordings, Reconstructions, and Observations | |
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| Comparing Situations across Types of Violence | |
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| Fight Myths | |
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| Violent Situations Are Shaped by an Emotional Field of Tension and Fear | |
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| Alternative Theoretical Approaches | |
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| Historical Evolution of Social Techniques for Controlling Confrontational Tension | |
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| Sources | |
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| Preview | |
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| The Complementarity of Micro and Macro Theories | |
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| The Dirty Secrets of Violence | |
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| Confrontational Tension and Incompetent Violence | |
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| Brave, Competent and Evenly Matched? | |
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| The Central Reality: Confrontational Tension | |
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| Tension/Fear and Non-performance in Military Combat | |
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| Low Fighting Competence | |
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| Friendly Fire and Bystander Hits | |
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| Joy of Combat: Under What Conditions? | |
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| The Continuum of Tension/Fear and Combat Performance | |
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| Confrontational Tension in Policing and Non-Military Fighting | |
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| Fear of What? | |
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| Forward Panic | |
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| Confrontational Tension and Release: Hot Rush, Piling On, Overkill | |
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| Atrocities of War | |
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| Caveat: The Multiple Causation of Atrocities | |
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| Asymmetrical Entrainment of Forward Panic and Paralyzed Victims | |
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| Forward Panics and One-Sided Casualties in Decisive Battles | |
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| Atrocities of Peace | |
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| Crowd Violence | |
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| Demonstrators and Crowd-Control Forces | |
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| The Crowd Multiplier | |
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| Alternatives to Forward Panic | |
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| Attacking the Weak: I. Domestic Abuse | |
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| The Emotional Definition of the Situation | |
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| Background and Foreground Explanations | |
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| Abusing the Exceptionally Weak: Time-patterns from Normalcy to Atrocity | |
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| Three Pathways: Normal Limited Conflict, Severe Forward Panic, and Terroristic Torture Regime | |
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| Negotiating Interactional Techniques of Violence and Victimhood | |
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| Attacking the Weak: II. Bullying, Mugging, and Holdups | |
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| The Continuum of Total Institutions | |
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| Muggings and Holdups | |
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| Battening on Interactional Weakness | |
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| Cleaned-up and Staged Violence | |
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| Staging Fair Fights | |
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| Hero versus Hero | |
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| Audience Supports and Limits on Violence | |
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| Fighting Schools and Fighting Manners | |
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| Displaying Risk and Manipulating Danger in Sword and Pistol Duels | |
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| The Decline of Elite Dueling and Its Replacement by the Gunfight | |
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| Honor without Fairness: Vendettas as Chains of Unbalanced Fights | |
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| Ephemeral Situational Honor and Leap-Frog Escalation to One-Gun Fights | |
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| Behind the Facade of Honor and Disrespect | |
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| The Cultural Prestige of Fair and Unfair Fights | |
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| Violence as Fun and Entertainment | |
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| Moral Holidays | |
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| Looting and Destruction as Participation Sustainers | |
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| The Wild Party as Elite Potlatch | |
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| Carousing Zones and Boundary Exclusion Violence | |
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| End-Resisting Violence | |
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| Frustrated Carousing and Stirring up Effervescence | |
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| Paradox: Why Does Most Intoxication Not Lead to Violence? | |
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| The One-Fight-Per-Venue Limitation | |
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| Fighting as Action and Fun | |
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| Mock Fights and Mosh Pits | |
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| Sports Violence | |
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| Sports as Dramatically Contrived Conflicts | |
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| Game Dynamics and Player Violence | |
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| Winning by Practical Skills for Producing Emotional Energy Dominance | |
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| The Timing of Player Violence: Loser-Frustration Fights and Turning-Point Fights | |
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| Spectators' Game-Dependent Violence | |
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| Offsite Fans' Violence: Celebration and Defeat Riots | |
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| Offsite Violence as Sophisticated Technique: Soccer Hooligans | |
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| The Dramatic Local Construction of Antagonistic Identities | |
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| Revolt of the Audience in the Era of Entertainers' Domination | |
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| Dynamics and Structure of Violent Situations | |
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| How Fights Start, or Not | |
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| Normal Limited Acrimony: Griping, Whining, Arguing, Quarreling | |
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| Boasting and Blustering | |
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| The Code of the Street: Institutionalized Bluster and Threat | |
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| Pathways into the Tunnel of Violence | |
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| The Violent Few | |
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| Small Numbers of the Actively and Competently Violent | |
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| Confrontation Leaders and Action-Seekers: Police | |
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| Who Wins? | |
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| Military Snipers: Concealed and Absorbed in Technique | |
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| Fighter Pilot Aces: Aggressively Imposing Momentum | |
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| In the Zone versus the Glaze of Combat: Micro-situational Techniques of Interactional Dominance | |
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| The 9/11 Cockpit Fight | |
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| Violence as Dominance in Emotional Attention Space | |
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| What Does the Rest of the Crowd Do? | |
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| Violence without Audiences: Professional Killers and Clandestine Violence | |
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| Confrontation-Minimizing Terrorist Tactics | |
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| Violent Niches in Confrontational Attention Space | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Practical Conclusions | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |