Presser, Lois. <br/><br/>
Been a heavy life :  stories of violent men / 
Lois Presser. 
 - Urbana :  University of Illinois Press,  (c)2008. 
 - 1 online resource. 
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 - Critical perspectives in criminology .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><br/>Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. <br/>http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780252092183 9781283583169 9786613895615 661389561X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019718606 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA8A5127  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014707793  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Violence in men.<br/>Abusive men.<br/>Criminal behavior.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM1116  / .B446 2008