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Why They Kill
β Scribed by Rhodes, Richard
- Book ID
- 110503153
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 662 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780375702488
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Why do some men, women and even children assault, batter, rape, mutilate and murder? In his stunning new book, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes provides a startling and persuasive answer.
Why They Kill explores the discoveries of a maverick American criminologist, Dr. Lonnie Athens -- himself the child of a violent family -- which challenge conventional theories about violent behavior. By interviewing violent criminals in prison, Dr. Athens has identified a pattern of social development common to all seriously violent people -- a four-stage process he calls "violentization":
-- First, brutalization: A young person is forced by violence or the threat of violence to submit to an aggressive authority figure; he witnesses the violent subjugation of intimates, and the authority figure coaches him to use violence to settle disputes.
-- Second, belligerency: The dispirited subject, determined to prevent his further violent subjugation, heeds his coach and...
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