Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited write by Lonnie H. Athens. This book was released on 1997. Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited
Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited write by Lonnie H. Athens. This book was released on 1997. Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rather than finding the causes of criminal behavior in external forces or personality disorders, as conventional wisdom often does, the author 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, this book augments his call to reexamine the source and locus of violent criminal behavior.
The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals
The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals write by Lonnie H Athens. This book was released on 2017-07-05. The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lonnie H. Athens’ path-breaking work examines a problem that has baffled experts and the general public alike: How does a person become a predatory violent criminal? In the original edition, the process that Athens labeled “violentization” encompassed four stages: brutalization, defiance, dominative engagements, and virulency. In this edition, Athens identifies a new final stage, violent predation, as the culmination of the violent criminal’s development. He uses vivid first-person accounts gleaned from in-depth interviews and participant observation of nascent and hardened violent criminals to back up his theory. In this vastly expanded edition, Athens examines how his thinking and ideas have evolved over the past thirty years and renames and clarifies two stages of development. Athens also addresses, for the first time, criticisms of his original theory. Milestones of this important work are discussed, as well as the paradoxes surrounding its present-day status in the field of criminology. Athens proposes a revised theoretical model that will be useful for classroom use, as well as for interested general readers and professionals.
Juvenile Justice
Juvenile Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Juvenile Justice write by Ron Grimming. This book was released on 2008. Juvenile Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains brief overviews of true-crime cases involving violent youths, including the facts of each case and the rules of law, describing how the juvenile justice system works, and providing comprehension questions.
Crime, Shame and Reintegration
Crime, Shame and Reintegration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crime, Shame and Reintegration write by John Braithwaite. This book was released on 1989-03-23. Crime, Shame and Reintegration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Crime, Shame and Reintegration is a contribution to general criminological theory. Its approach is as relevant to professional burglary as to episodic delinquency or white collar crime. Braithwaite argues that some societies have higher crime rates than others because of their different processes of shaming wrongdoing. Shaming can be counterproductive, making crime problems worse. But when shaming is done within a cultural context of respect for the offender, it can be an extraordinarily powerful, efficient and just form of social control. Braithwaite identifies the social conditions for such successful shaming. If his theory is right, radically different criminal justice policies are needed - a shift away from punitive social control toward greater emphasis on moralizing social control. This book will be of interest not only to criminologists and sociologists, but to those in law, public administration and politics who are concerned with social policy and social issues.
