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Been a Heavy Life
Stories of Violent Men
Lois Presser
Cloth978-0-252-03358-2
$65.00
Paper978-0-252-07558-2
$25.00
| Pub Date: | 2008 |
| Pages: | 200 pages |
| Dimensions: | 6 x 9 in. |
A groundbreaking look at how violent men tell their life stories
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 fear--those who rape, murder, assault, and rob, often repeatedly. Been a Heavy Life 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.
“Been a Heavy Life makes a huge contribution to several different areas of research, including the criminological study of violence and narrative psychology. Presser does researchers across disciplines a great service by wrestling with some of the most daunting methodological and theoretical problems in the intersection of these fields.”--Shadd Maruna, author of Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives
Lois Presser is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Series:
Critical Perspectives in Criminology
Subjects:
Sociology / Criminal Justice / Oral History
