Violent Acts and Violentization: Assessing, Applying and Developing Lonnie Athens' Theory and Research

by Lonnie H. Athens

According to this volume an understanding of violence has to be social because violence is so situationally contingent, culturally and subculturally patterned and historically variable. And yet for all its ubiquity its causes and contextual variations are not fully understand. Lonnie Athens's work on violence is applied, assessed, and extended in this publication by scholars from a wide variety of fields, including clinical psychology, criminology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762309059
• ISBN13: 9780762309054
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"