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Been a Heavy Life : Stories of Violent Men /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Presser, Lois
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé: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 discipline of criminology with two crucial frameworks: one for critically evaluating the construction of offenders' own stories, and one for grasping the cultural meta-narratives that legitimize violence. From publisher description.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (200 pages).
ISBN:9780252092183