Why They Kill - 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 Why They Kill write by Richard Rhodes. This book was released on 2000-10-10. Why They Kill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, brings his inimitable vision, exhaustive research, and mesmerizing prose to this timely book that dissects violence and offers new solutions to the age old problem of why people kill. Lonnie Athens was raised by a brutally domineering father. Defying all odds, Athens became a groundbreaking criminologist who turned his scholar's eye to the problem of why people become violent. After a decade of interviewing several hundred violent convicts--men and women of varied background and ethnicity, he discovered "violentization," the four-stage process by which almost any human being can evolve into someone who will assault, rape, or murder another human being. Why They Kill is a riveting biography of Athens and a judicious critique of his seminal work, as well as an unflinching investigation into the history of violence.
Why Did They Kill?
Why Did They Kill? - 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 Why Did They Kill? write by Alexander Laban Hinton. This book was released on 2005. Why Did They Kill? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an ethnographic examination and an appraisal of the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot based on the author's long fieldwork in the area.
Why We Kill
Why We Kill - 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 Why We Kill write by Nancy Loucks. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Why We Kill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Infanticide, serial killings, war, terrorism, abortion, honour killings, euthanasia, suicide bombings and genocide; all involve taking of life. Put most simply, all involve killing one or more other people. Yet cultural context influences heavily how one perceives all of these, and indeed, some readers of this paragraph may already have thought: 'But surely that doesn't belong with those others, that's not really killing.' Why We Kill examines violence in many of its manifestations, exploring how culture plays a role in people's understanding of violent action. From the first chapter, which tries to understand multiple forms of domestic homicide including infanticide, filicide, spousal homicide and honour killings, to the final chapter's bone-chilling account of the massacre at Murambi in Rwanda, this fascinating book makes compelling reading.
Why Do They Kill?
Why Do They Kill? - 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 Why Do They Kill? write by David Adams (Ed. D.). This book was released on 2007. Why Do They Kill? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of domestic homicide in America examines the lives and moitvation of men who kill their intimate partners.
Why They Kill
Why They Kill - 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 Why They Kill write by Richard Rhodes. This book was released on 2015-10-21. Why They Kill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do some men, women and even children assault, batter, rape, mutilate and murder? In his stunning new book, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes provides a startling and persuasive answer. Why They Killexplores the discoveries of a maverick American criminologist, Dr. Lonnie Athens -- himself the child of a violent family -- which challenge conventional theories about violent behavior. By interviewing violent criminals in prison, Dr. Athens has identified a pattern of social development common to all seriously violent people -- a four-stage process he calls "violentization": -- First, brutalization: A young person is forced by violence or the threat of violence to submit to an aggressive authority figure; he witnesses the violent subjugation of intimates, and the authority figure coaches him to use violence to settle disputes. -- Second, belligerency: The dispirited subject, determined to prevent his further violent subjugation, heeds his coach and resolves to resort to violence. -- Third, violent performances: His violent response to provocation succeeds, and he reads respect and fear in the eyes of others. -- Fourth, virulency: Exultant, he determines from now on to utilize serious violence as a means of dealing with people -- and he bonds with others who believe as he does. Since all four stages must be fully experienced in sequence and completed to produce a violent individual, we see how intervening to interrupt the process can prevent a tragic outcome. Rhodes supports Athens's theory with historical evidence and shows how it explains such violent careers as those of Perry Smith (the killer central to Truman Capote's narrative In Cold Blood), Mike Tyson, "preppy rapist" Alex Kelly, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Why They Kill challenges with devastating evidence the theory that violent behavior is impulsive, unconsciously motivated and predetermined. It offers compelling insights into the terrible, ongoing dilemma of criminal violence that plagues families, neighborhoods, cities and schools.
