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Analyzing Harmful Silences

By: Lois Presser

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Analyzing Harmful Silences

By: Lois Presser

Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. This book is a guide to understanding and uncovering what is left unsaid--whether concealed or silenced, presupposed or excluded. Narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines a strategy for determining what or who is excluded from textual materials, adding to the tool kits of social researchers and activists alike. Drawing on a variety of real-world examples, Unsaid provides a richly layered approach to analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and arise from what goes without saying"--

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0520384946

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Analyzing Harmful Silences

By: Lois Presser

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0520384938

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Narrative Criminology

Understanding Stories of Crime

By: Lois Presser,Sveinung Sandberg

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Understanding Stories of Crime

By: Lois Presser,Sveinung Sandberg

Explores the role of stories in criminal culture and justice systems around the world Stories are much more than a means of communication—stories help us shape our identities, make sense of the world, and mobilize others to action. In Narrative Criminology, prominent scholars from across the academy and around the world examine stories that animate offending. From an examination of how criminals understand certain types of crime to be less moral than others, to how violent offenders and drug users each come to understand or resist their identity as ‘criminals’, to how cultural narratives motivate genocidal action, the case studies in this book cover a wide array of crimes and justice systems throughout the world. The contributors uncover the narratives at the center of their essays through qualitative interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and written archives, and they scrutinize narrative structure and meaning by analyzing genres, plots, metaphors, and other components of storytelling. In doing so, they reveal the cognitive, ideological, and institutional mechanisms by which narratives promote harmful action. Finally, they consider how offenders’ narratives are linked to and emerge from those of conventional society or specific subcultures. Each chapter reveals important insights and elements for the development of a framework of narrative criminology as an important approach for understanding crime and criminal justice. An unprecedented and landmark collection, Narrative Criminology opens the door for an exciting new field of study on the role of stories in motivating and legitimizing harm.

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NYU Press

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1479891592

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Inside Story

How Narratives Drive Mass Harm

By: Lois Presser

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How Narratives Drive Mass Harm

By: Lois Presser

Stories have persuasive powers: they can influence how a person thinks and acts. Inside Story explores the capacity of stories to direct our thinking, heighten our emotions, and thereby motivate people to do harm to others and to tolerate harm done by others. From terrorist violence to “mere” complacency with institutionalized harm, the book weds case study to cross-disciplinary theory. It builds upon timely work in the field of narrative criminology and provides a thorough analysis of how stories can promote or inhibit harmful action. By offering a sociological analysis of the emotional yet intersubjective experience of dangerous stories, the book fleshes out the perplexing mechanics of cultural influence on crime and other forms of harm.

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Univ of California Press

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0520964470

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9780520964471

Been a Heavy Life

Stories of Violent Men

By: Lois Presser

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Been a Heavy Life

Stories of Violent Men

By: Lois Presser

In this groundbreaking work, Lois Presser investigates the life stories of men who have perpetrated violence. She applies insights from across the academy to in-depth interviews with men who shared their accounts of how they became the people we most fear--those who rape, murder, assault, and rob, often repeatedly. Been a Heavy Life provides the discipline of criminology with two crucial frameworks: one for critically evaluating the construction of offenders’ own stories, and one for grasping the cultural meta-narratives that legitimize violence. For social scientists generally, this book offers a vivid demonstration of just how dynamic and contingent self-narratives are.

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203

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University of Illinois Press

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025209218X

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Why We Harm

By: Lois Presser

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Why We Harm

By: Lois Presser

Criminologists are primarily concerned with the analysis of actions that violate existing laws. But a growing number have begun analyzing crimes as actions that inflict harm, regardless of the applicability of legal sanctions. Even as they question standard definitions of crime as law-breaking, scholars of crime have few theoretical frameworks with which to understand the etiology of harmful action. In Why We Harm, Lois Presser scrutinizes accounts of acts as diverse as genocide, environmental degradation, war, torture, terrorism, homicide, rape, and meat-eating in order to develop an original theoretical framework with which to consider harmful actions and their causes. In doing so, this timely book presents a general theory of harm, revealing the commonalities between actions that impose suffering and cause destruction. Harm is built on stories in which the targets of harm are reduced to one-dimensional characters—sometimes a dangerous foe, sometimes much more benign, but still a projection of our own concerns and interests. In our stories of harm, we are licensed to do the harmful deed and, at the same time, are powerless to act differently. Chapter by chapter, Presser examines statements made by perpetrators of a wide variety of harmful actions. Appearing vastly different from one another at first glance, Presser identifies the logics they share that motivate, legitimize, and sustain them. From that point, she maps out strategies for reducing harm.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813562600

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Silent Knife

Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC)

By: Lois J. Estner,Nancy Wainer Cohen

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Silent Knife

Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC)

By: Lois J. Estner,Nancy Wainer Cohen

The bible of cesarean prevention. Wall Street Journal A landmark event, which will change the course of obstetric care by giving parents the informtion they need to make the decisions that are best for their own families. Comprehensive, highly readable, sensitive . . . should be read by everyone who cares about someone. Marian Tompson Director, Alternative Birth Crisis Coalition American Academy of Medicine Required reading for all childbirth professionals and prospective parents. Journal of Gynecological Nursing

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Been a Heavy Life

Stories of Violent Men

By: Lois Presser

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University of Illinois Press

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0252075587

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Why We Harm

By: Lois Presser

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Inside Story

How Narratives Drive Mass Harm

By: Lois Presser

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How Narratives Drive Mass Harm

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Baby Eats!

By: Lois Smith

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Baby Eats!

By: Lois Smith

For parents who want the best for their children, here are homemade recipes for healthy, happy babies. Along with surprisingly economical methods for making baby food, Baby Eats! includes special sections on common food allergies, feeding while traveling, and avoiding pesticides.

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Berkley

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0425141209

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Narrative Criminology

Understanding Stories of Crime

By: Lois Presser,Sveinung Sandberg

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Understanding Stories of Crime

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