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.
Lois Presser
Lois Presser
Recognizing Lois Presser for the publication of her latest book, Why We Harm.
Beth Easterling
Recognizing Beth Easterling for publishing six journal articles on the sociology of punishment and interpersonal relationships.
Been a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men
Author: Lois Presser
In this groundbreaking work, 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.
Lois Presser
Recognizing Lois Presser for her recently published book Been a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men.