Lethal Intentions

✍ Scribed by Dave Anderson

• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 128 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B07MLL1KKL

✦ Synopsis

Warley?s work focuses on male-to-male violent juvenile encounters. Using a multi-perspective framework that encompasses strain theory, social disorganization theory, the subculture of violence thesis, as well as theories of criminal lethality and compulsory masculinity, background characteristics are assessed to delineate structural-cultural factors that dispose adolescent males to violence. Consideration is also given to crime characteristics that differentiate impulsive killing from premeditated homicide. Disentangling weapon instrumentality effect from offenders? intentionality is a primary.;List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1: Juvenile Homicide: A Definition of the Problem; Introduction; Policy and Practice Implications; A Mandate for Forensic Social Work; Purpose of the Present Study; CHAPTER 2: Juvenile Homicide: Structural and Cultural RiskFactors; Dynamic Contextualism: An Integrated Thoery of JuvenileHomicide; Structural Considerations; Cultural Considerations; CHAPTER 3: Similarly Situated Males: The Situational Natureof Male-to-Male Violence; Situational Contingencies.