TY  - BOOK
AU  - Presser,Lois
TI  - Been a heavy life: stories of violent men 
T2  - Critical perspectives in criminology
SN  - 9780252092183
AV  - HM1116 .B446 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Violence in men
KW  - Abusive men
KW  - Criminal behavior
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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