Methods for the Study of Collective Violence
in Ralph W. Conant and Molly Apple Levin, eds., (1969) Problems in Research on Community Violence. New York: Praeger

Political Contention

The article discusses five major methodological problems plaguing the study of collective violence:
(1) Problem of basic definition
(2) Problem of biased enumeration
(3) Problem of fragmentary documentation
(4) Problem of multiple units of analysis
(5) Problem of attaching violent action to its context