Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited
Author: Lonnie H. Athens
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780252066085
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rather than finding the causes of criminal behavior in external forces or personality disorders, as conventional wisdom often does, the author renews his fundamental argument that a violent situation comes into being when defined by an individual as a situation that calls for violence -- that an actor responds to the circumstance as he or she defines it. Based on the author's many firsthand interviews with offenders and on his personal experience, this book augments his call to reexamine the source and locus of violent criminal behavior.