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Seductions Of Crime: Moral And Sensual Attractions In Doing Evil


Seductions Of Crime: Moral And Sensual Attractions In Doing Evil

Paperback by Katz, Jack

Seductions Of Crime: Moral And Sensual Attractions In Doing Evil

£22.99

ISBN:
9780465076161
Publication Date:
18 Oct 1990
Language:
English
Publisher:
Basic Books
Pages:
376 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 7 - 12 May 2024
Seductions Of Crime: Moral And Sensual Attractions In Doing Evil

Description

In this startling look at evil behaviour, a UCLA sociologist tries to get inside the criminal psyche to understand what it means or feels, signifies, sounds, tastes, or looks like to do any particular crime.

Contents

* Introduction * Righteous Slaughter * Sneaky Thrills * Ways of the Badass * Street Elites * Doing Stickup * Action, Chaos, and Control: Persisting with Stickup * Of Hardmen and Bad Niggers: Gender and Ethnicity in the Background of Stickup * Primordial Evil: Sense and Dynamic in Cold-Blooded, Senseless Murder * Seductions and Repulsions of Crime

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