Been a heavy life : stories of violent men /

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Investigates the life stories of men who have perpetrated violence. Presser applies insights from across the academy to in-depth interviews with men who shared their accounts of how they became the people we most fear--those who rape, murder, assault, and rob, often repeatedly. She provides the disc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Presser, Lois
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Colección:Critical perspectives in criminology.
Temas:
Violence in men.
Abusive men.
Criminal behavior.
Violence chez l'homme.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Men's Studies.
Abusive men
Criminal behavior
Violence in men
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Self and story
  • Offender identities, offender narratives
  • Thinking about research effects
  • Research methods when research is being researched
  • Reform narratives : return of the good self
  • Stability narratives : never a bad self
  • Elastic narratives : creative integration
  • Tales of heroic struggle
  • The situated construction of narratives
  • The power of stories.

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