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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.

Table of 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

Seductions Of Crime Moral And Sensual Attractions In Doing Evil

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    Publisher: Basic Books
    Publication Date: 10/18/1990 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780465076161, 978-0465076161
    ISBN10: 0465076165
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    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.

    Table of 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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