Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist by Richard Rhodes - This will fascinate you

In Why They Kill, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Rhodes traces the life and career of criminologist Lonnie Athens, a man who took his own sad and squalid life and turned it on its head to make a groundbreaking career as a criminologist. Athens grew up in a violent, angry world. Rather than absorbing the sickness and violence around him, though, he studied it, and eventually developed a theory about how violent criminals are created. Rhodess critical examination of Athenss work forces readers to consider how violent our society really is, how it became that way, and what might be done to change it. When applied to well-known criminals such as Michael Tyson and Lee Harvey Oswald, Athenss ideas become concrete and take on an urgent tone: its easy to discuss theories and predictors in the abstract, but these stories are real, and they repeat themselves in our society at an alarming rate. Rhodess approach to this disturbing subject stands apart from many other crime books in its intelligence, humanity, and empathy. These are not just descriptions of scumbags and their brutal crimes, but intensely personal stories that reveal how a culture of violence propagates itself. --Lisa Higgins

This will fascinate you
Rhodes follows the career of a maverick criminologist named Lonnie Athens, who developed a theory that can explain how persons develop the capacity to kill. Inspired by his own experiences as a child victim of domestic and neighborhood violence, and too small to successfully emulate the models of violence he has known, he goes to college and studies sociology and criminology, then begins interviewing prison inmates who have committed violent crimes including murder. He detects a pattern and develops a theory he calls violentization that identifies four stages in the development of the capacity to kill. The book then analyzes a number of well-known murderers using the theory. This was a hard book to put down.

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