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Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited

Lonnie H Athens

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  • 192 sidor
  • 1997
Sociologist Norman K. Denzin characterized Lonnie Athens's earlier work as "the most far-reaching, provocative, and profound analysis of violent conduct" available in criminological literature. In Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited, Athens returns to his pioneering work and finds that his premises are just as relevant and original as in their earlier version--and that they have been curiously, and to society's detriment, overlooked. Rather than finding the causes of criminal behavior in external forces or personality disorders, as conventional wisdom often does, Athens renews his fundamental argument that a violent situation comes into being when defined by an individual as a situation that calls for violence--that an actor responds to the circumstance as he or she defines it. Based on the author's many firsthand interviews with offenders and on his personal experience, Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited augments Athenss call to reexamine the source and locus of violent criminal behavior.
  • Författare: Lonnie H Athens
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780252066085
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 192
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1997-03-01
  • Förlag: University of Illinois Press