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Been a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men
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Been a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men
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Been a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men
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In this groundbreaking work, Lois Presser investigates the life stories of men who have perpetrated violence. She applies insights from across the academy to in-depth interviews with men who shared their accounts of how they became the people we most fearthose who rape, murder, assault, and rob, often repeatedly.
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. For social scientists generally, this book offers a vivid demonstration of just how dynamic and contingent self-narratives are.