In Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited, Lonnie Athens returns to his pioneering work and enlarges his original explanations 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. On the basis of this expanded theory, he outlines a new policy for the control of violent crime. Athens also tells the story behind his study, including research blunders made along the way, the violence out of which the study was born, the ongoing violence in which it was steeped, and the hostile reception it met when it was originally published. While recounting this journey, he uncovers some deeply rooted problems that still plague the field of criminology.
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"A brilliant extension of his earlier work." -- Norman K. Denzin, author of Hollywood Shot by Shot
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If you have any interest in violent criminal acts, criminal justice, chronic/acute criminal behavior from a treatment, control or academic perspective, this is a must read. I have spent 25 years researching, planning, and programming in this field and Dr. Athen's work has major implications across many domains. Whether or not you agree, after reading this book you will be left motivated and enlightened. I also recommend reading "Why They Kill" by Richard Rhodes either before or after reading this book.
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that criminals and fools are allowed to post reviews here. Joyce Carol Oates is not a good source for information about criminals. I work as a prison psychologist in one of the most progressive systems in the United States. Lonnie Athens has done groundbreaking work which I have confirmed and extended in my own clinical work. I reject more than 90% of what the professional research literature tells me because the research methods are inadequate, the statistical methods are incorrect, or the conclusions go beyond the data. Athens is one of the few academics whom I follow carefully (others are the late Neil Jacobson and John Gottman). I would recommend that you ignore the review that gave this book 0 stars and investigate for yourself. Anything in which Lonnie Athens is involved is automatically worthy of careful reading.
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Dr. Athen's work on the creation of violent criminals is groundbreaking in its scope and reach. I have read all of his books and the framework he proposes is one that offers many intersections for intervention before a violent person is created.
This is an intellectually challenging and exciting book. It should be read by anyone interested in creating a peaceful society and preventing inter-personal violence.
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Sensitive and informed scholars of our contemporary social scene must be aware of the puzzling problem that is set by the occurrence and character of violent human conduct. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ultraviolent criminals, corporal community, frustrative interpretations, physically defensive interpretation, predominant individual type, pure frustrative, pure malefic, malignant communities, completed violent situations, malefic interpretation, restraining judgment, perpetrator implicitly, phantom communities, violent criminal acts, phantom community, defensive interpretations, violent criminal actions, attempted forcible rape, violent plan, overriding judgment, violence hypothesis, violent careers, violent criminality, conflictive situations, violent interpretations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Unsubstantially Violent Act, Negligibly Violent Period, Near-Violent Situation, Unsubstantially Violent Period Age, Herbert Blumer, Palo Alto Scale, The Principal Phase, George Herbert Mead New!
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Sensitive and informed scholars of our contemporary social scene must be aware of the puzzling problem that is set by the occurrence and character of violent human conduct. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ultraviolent criminals, corporal community, frustrative interpretations, physically defensive interpretation, predominant individual type, pure frustrative, pure malefic, malignant communities, completed violent situations, malefic interpretation, restraining judgment, perpetrator implicitly, phantom communities, violent criminal acts, phantom community, defensive interpretations, violent criminal actions, attempted forcible rape, violent plan, overriding judgment, violence hypothesis, violent careers, violent criminality, conflictive situations, violent interpretations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Sherwood Anderson by Kim Townsend on page 114, and Back Matter
- Criminal Law by Kimm Walton in Back Matter
- The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals by Lonnie H. Athens in Back Matter
- Social Psychology by Kenneth S. Bordens in Back Matter
- Violent Men by Hans Toch on page 128
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- Violent Acts and Violentization (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance) by L. Athens on 7 pages
- Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist by Richard Rhodes on 6 pages
- Understanding Violent Crime by JONES in Back Matter
- Applied Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference from Incomplete-Data Perspectives (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) by Andrew Gelman in Back Matter
- Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Volume 23 (Studies in Symbolic Interaction) by N.K. Denzin on page 215
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