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The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals
Lonnie H. Athens
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Description for The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals
Paperback. Discusses just how a person become a dangerous violent criminal Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 163 x 8. Weight in Grams: 190.
Lonnie Athens examines a problem that has long baffled experts and lay people alike: How does a person become a dangerous violent criminal? He explains how those who commit brutal crimes begin as relatively benign individuals who undergo lengthy, at times tortuous. development leading them to malevolence. The process that Athens labels "violentization" encompasses four stages: brutalization, belligerency, violent performance, and virulency. Athens uses vivid first-person accounts gleaned from in-depth interviews with nascent and hardened violent criminals to back up his theory, producing a book that will appeal to a wide variety of readers interested in criminal justice, law, and ... Read more
Lonnie Athens examines a problem that has long baffled experts and lay people alike: How does a person become a dangerous violent criminal? He explains how those who commit brutal crimes begin as relatively benign individuals who undergo lengthy, at times tortuous. development leading them to malevolence. The process that Athens labels "violentization" encompasses four stages: brutalization, belligerency, violent performance, and virulency. Athens uses vivid first-person accounts gleaned from in-depth interviews with nascent and hardened violent criminals to back up his theory, producing a book that will appeal to a wide variety of readers interested in criminal justice, law, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252062629
SKU
V9780252062629
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Ref
99-17
About Lonnie H. Athens
Lonnie Athens has been studying violent criminals for 20 years, served as a consultant on capital murder cases, and has published an earlier book, Violent Criminal Acts and Actors. He was senior research criminologist at Georgetown University Law Center and now teaches in the criminology department at Seton Hall University.
Reviews for The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals
"The most far-reaching, provocative, and profound analysis of violent conduct to be found in the criminological literature."
Norman K. Denzin, author of The Research Act
Norman K. Denzin, author of The Research Act