VIOLENT CRIMINAL ACT ACTORS by ATHENS

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University of Illinois Press, 1997-03-01. paperback. Used: Good.

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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. Very good. wraps, 175 pp owner's bookstamp on the inside of the front cover Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

University of Illinois Press, 1997-03-01. paperback. Used:Good.

Univ of Illinois Pr, 1997. Paperback. New. 192 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. 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… Read More

University of Illinois Press, 1997-03-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!