Violent Acts and Violentization

Athens's work on violence is applied, assessed, and extended in this title by scholars from a variety of fields, including clinical psychology, criminology, history, psychiatry, and sociology. Violence is examined from contexts of child abuse, corrections, soldiers in wartime, and the Holocaust.

List of contents

Violentization in larger context, L. Athens; recipe for violence, M.P. Dumont; one man's story - how I became a "disorganized" dangerous violent criminal, L. Athens, R. Starr; the great cerebroscope controversy, R. Restak; violent socialization and the SS-Einsatzgruppen, R. Rhodes; the short course for murder - how soldiers and criminals learn to kill, J. Sanborn; the violent socialization scale - development and initial validation, G. Rhodes, et al; from violent juvenile offenders to dangerous violent criminals - a test of Athens's theory, G.R. Jarjoura, R. Triplett; afterword - where does violentization go from here?, J.T. Ulmer.

Summary

Athens's work on violence is applied, assessed, and extended in this title by scholars from a variety of fields, including clinical psychology, criminology, history, psychiatry, and sociology. Violence is examined from contexts of child abuse, corrections, soldiers in wartime, and the Holocaust.

Product details

• Assisted by: L. Athens (Editor), Lonnie Athens (Editor), Lonnie H. Athens (Editor), J. T. Ulmer (Editor)
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2002
• EAN: 9780762309054
• ISBN: 978-0-7623-0905-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 470 g
• Series: Sociology of Crime, Law and De
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)