Violent Acts and Violentization - Assessing, Applying and Developing Lonnie Athens' Theory and Research (Hardcover)

DESCRIPTION: Athens, who is both a criminologist and sociologist, opens the volume with a restatement of his violentization thesis, which Richard Rhodes made famous in his highly claimed book, Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist. Contributors to this volume extend and test the theory of violentization in the contexts of child abuse, clinical psychology, corrections, soldiers in wartime, and the Holocaust. In this volume, Lonnie Athens' work on violence is applied, assessed, and extended by scholars from a wide variety of fields, including clinical psychology, criminology, history, psychiatry, and sociology. The contributions subject the theory of violentization to both qualitative and quantitative analyses. Finally, sociologists Jeffrey Ulmer, Jay Meehan, and David Maines situate Athens' work in criminology and sociology, providing crucial insights into its contribution to the theory and methods used in these two fields Contents: Preface (J.T. Ulmer); Violentization in larger context (L. Athens); Recipe for violence (M.P. Dumont); One man's story: how I became a "disorganized" dangerous violent criminal (L. Athens, R. Starr); The great cerebroscope controversy (R. Restak); Violent socialization and the SS-Einsatzgruppen (R. Rhodes); The short course for murder: how soldiers and criminals learn to kill (J. Sanborn); The violent socialization scale: development and initial validation (G. Rhodes et al.); From violent juvenile offenders to dangerous violent criminals: a test of Athens' theory (G.R. Jarjoura, R. Triplett); Afterword: where does violentization go from here? (J.T. Ulmer).

General

Imprint:	JAI Press Inc.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
Release date:	December 2002
First published:	2002
Editors:	Lonnie H Athens • J.T. Ulmer
Preface by:	J.T. Ulmer
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-7623-0905-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7623-0905-9
Barcode:	9780762309054

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