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Been a heavy life : stories of violent men / Lois Presser.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2008.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252092183
  • 9781283583169
  • 9786613895615
  • 661389561X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HM1116 .B446 2008
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Contents:
Offender identities, offender narratives -- Thinking about research effects -- Research methods when research is being researched -- Reform narratives : return of the good self -- Stability narratives : never a bad self -- Elastic narratives : creative integration -- Tales of heroic struggle -- The situated construction of narratives -- The power of stories.
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Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Self and story -- Offender identities, offender narratives -- Thinking about research effects -- Research methods when research is being researched -- Reform narratives : return of the good self -- Stability narratives : never a bad self -- Elastic narratives : creative integration -- Tales of heroic struggle -- The situated construction of narratives -- The power of stories.

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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.

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