{"product_id":"violent-criminal-acts-and-actors-revisited","title":"Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited","description":"Sociologist Norman K. Denzin characterized Lonnie Athens's earlier work\u003cbr\u003e as \"the most far-reaching, provocative, and profound analysis of violent conduct\" available in criminological literature. In \u003ci\u003eViolent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited,\u003c\/i\u003e Athens returns to his pioneering work and finds that his premises are just as relevant and original as in their earlier version--and that they have been curiously, and to society's detriment, overlooked.\u003cbr\u003e Rather than finding the causes of criminal behavior in external forces\u003cbr\u003e or personality disorders, as conventional wisdom often does, Athens renews his fundamental argument that a violent situation comes into being when defined by an individual as a situation that calls for violence--that an actor responds to the circumstance as he or she defines it. Based on the author's many firsthand interviews with offenders and on his personal experience, \u003ci\u003eViolent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e augments Athens’s call to reexamine the source and locus of violent criminal behavior.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244342169944,"sku":"9780252066085","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/violent-criminal-acts-and-actors-revisited","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}