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A 3 page book review that discusses, summarizes, and analyzes Lonnie Athens’s The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals (1992). The writer outlines the parameters of Athens’s informative study of violent criminal behaviors and then gives the opinion that policy makers would do well to pay attention to this insightful study. No additional sources cited.
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which he documents in his book The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals. This is a profound study that has numerous policy implications, which indicate that the current trend to address
criminality with ever increasingly severe sentencing and more prisons does not address the root causes of violent criminal behavior and, therefore, are doomed to be ineffective as deterrent factors.
Athens begins his text by summarizing instances of violent crime, which serves to define and identity the issues addressed by the topic of his study. He reviews differing theories of
criminality that explain this behavior and then posits that the key to fully explaining this deviant behavior is "to develop a theory which integrates (use of italics taken from text)
rather than segregates the effects of social environmental and bio-physiological factors" (Athens 14). The author goes on to recommend a holistic approach and summarizes the goal of his research in
this manner: "to develop a new theory for explaining the creation of dangerous violent criminals" (Athens 18). One of the most fundamental assumptions underlying Athenss investigation was the idea that
"people are what they are as a result of the social experiences that they have undergone in their lives" (Athens 18). This methodology utilized in-depth interviews with both "seasoned and
unseasoned violent offenders" to gather data (Athens 23). From this data, Athens formulated an experiential process that he argues defines the way in which violent criminals are shaped by their
environment and its inherent social interactions. This process consists of four stages, which are brutalization, belligerency, violent performances and virulency (Athens 25). Each stage is described via case studies. For
example, Athens explains how the brutalization process causes introspection and contemplation in which the victim questions why he was subjected to this experience. This contemplation typically leads victims to conclude
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