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Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited Paperback - 1997

by Lonnie H. Athens


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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 Athens's call to reexamine the source and locus of violent criminal behavior.

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Lonnie Athens returns to his pioneering work and enlarges his original explanation of violent crime, constructed from case-by-case analyses of chilling, first-person accounts. He now takes into account not only the violent act and actor, but also the community that the actor inhabits and in which the act occurs. While recounting his journey, he uncovered some deeply rooted problems that still plague the field of criminology.

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  • Title Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited
  • Author Lonnie H. Athens
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL
  • Date 1997-03
  • ISBN 9780252066085 / 0252066081
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Violence, Violent crimes
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96025235
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.15

About the author


Lonnie Athens, an associate professor in the criminal justice department at Seton Hall University, has testified in court as an expert witness on violent crimes. He is the author of The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals.
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