Been a heavy life
Subtitle: stories of violent men
By: Lois Presser.
Series: Critical perspectives in criminology
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780252033582; 9780252075582
Subjects: Violence in men; Abusive men; Criminal behavior
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Self and story; title: Offender identities, offender narratives; title: Thinking about research effects; title: Research methods when research is being researched; title: Reform narratives : return of the good self; title: Stability narratives : never a bad self; title: Elastic narratives : creative integration; title: Tales of heroic struggle; title: The situated construction of narratives; title: The power of stories.