Who me? locating agency in violent narratives -- Conversing with mutes -- Criminals' bad luck -- Maximum perversion -- Dreaming while awake -- Conclusion: consciousness, culpability, and control
Summary
Despite mounting references to the ""transgenerational transmission of violence, "" we still lack a compelling understanding of the linkage between the interpersonal violence of early life and the criminal violence of adulthood. In Prologue to Violence, Abby Stein draws on the gripping narratives of 65 incarcerated subjects and extensive material from law enforcement files to remedy this lacuna in both the forensic and psychodynamic literature. In the process, she calls into question prevailing beliefs about criminal character and motivation. For Stein the early trauma to which adu
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-142) and index
