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Been a Heavy Life
2010,2008
Overview
In this groundbreaking work, Lois Presser investigates the life
stories of men who have perpetrated violence. She 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. Been a
Heavy Life 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. For social scientists
generally, this book offers a vivid demonstration of just how
dynamic and contingent self-narratives are.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
ISBN
0252033582, 9780252033582, 9780252092183, 025209218X, 0252075587, 9780252075582
