Displaying 1 of 1 1988 Format: Book Author: Katz, Jack, 1944- author. Title: Seductions of crime : moral and sensual attractions in doing evil / Jack Katz. Publisher, Date: New York : Basic Books, [1988] ©1988 Description: viii, 367 pages ; 25 cm Summary: "A chilling exploration of the criminal mind--from juvenile delinquency to cold-blooded murder"--Cover subtitle. Subjects: Crime -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States. Criminal behavior -- United States. Compulsive behavior -- United States. Good and evil -- Psychological aspects. Criminals -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-360) and index. Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Charles Horton Cooley Award, 1989. Contents: 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. LCCN: 88047691 ISBN: 0465076157 9780465076154 0465076165 9780465076161 Other Number: 18291572 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 22735 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 364.24 Katz Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1