Ken Levi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3924203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Levi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Levi |
| SIGNATURE | LEVI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones's People's Temple Movement
Journal Article Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones's People's Temple Movement, ed. by Ken Levi. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982, xv. + 207 pp. $17.50 Get access John C. Gessner John C. Gessner Loyola UniversityNew Orleans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 45, Issue 3, Fall 1984, Pages 257–258, https://doi.org/10.2307/3…
The Cult Experience
Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones's People's Temple Movement
Homicide and suicide: Structure and process
This article brings together major new findings on homicide and suicide in order to contribute to an awareness of the similarities and differences between the two at both the structural and process levels of analysis, to make causal inferences, and to stimulate future research. Both homicide and suicide are processes of fixation on conflict resolution. The process of conflict resolution in turn is conditioned by structural disorganization. The pr…
Becoming a Hit Man: Neutralization in a Very Deviant Career
Homicide as conflict resolution
Homicide research at societal, subcultural, and interaction levels of analysis has not produced a comprehensive model for the killer‐victim transaction. But rules for organizing the experience of homicide can be generated from Simmel's definition of conflict as a "resolution of divergent dualisms" (1955:11). A model of homicide as a form of conflict resolution is demonstrated through interviews with a random sample of 35 adjudicated killers. Resp…
Gamblers and Gambling
Becoming a Hit Man: Neutralization in a Very Deviant Career
Homicide as conflict resolution
Homicide research at societal, subcultural, and interaction levels of analysis has not produced a comprehensive model for the killer‐victim transaction. But rules for organizing the experience of homicide can be generated from Simmel's definition of conflict as a "resolution of divergent dualisms" (1955:11). A model of homicide as a form of conflict resolution is demonstrated through interviews with a random sample of 35 adjudicated killers. Resp…
Homicide and suicide: Structure and process
This article brings together major new findings on homicide and suicide in order to contribute to an awareness of the similarities and differences between the two at both the structural and process levels of analysis, to make causal inferences, and to stimulate future research. Both homicide and suicide are processes of fixation on conflict resolution. The process of conflict resolution in turn is conditioned by structural disorganization. The pr…
Gamblers and Gambling
Homicide as conflict resolution
Homicide research at societal, subcultural, and interaction levels of analysis has not produced a comprehensive model for the killer‐victim transaction. But rules for organizing the experience of homicide can be generated from Simmel's definition of conflict as a "resolution of divergent dualisms" (1955:11). A model of homicide as a form of conflict resolution is demonstrated through interviews with a random sample of 35 adjudicated killers. Resp…
Becoming a Hit Man: Neutralization in a Very Deviant Career
Homicide and suicide: Structure and process
This article brings together major new findings on homicide and suicide in order to contribute to an awareness of the similarities and differences between the two at both the structural and process levels of analysis, to make causal inferences, and to stimulate future research. Both homicide and suicide are processes of fixation on conflict resolution. The process of conflict resolution in turn is conditioned by structural disorganization. The pr…
The Cult Experience
Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones's People's Temple Movement
Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones's People's Temple Movement
Journal Article Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones's People's Temple Movement, ed. by Ken Levi. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982, xv. + 207 pp. $17.50 Get access John C. Gessner John C. Gessner Loyola UniversityNew Orleans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 45, Issue 3, Fall 1984, Pages 257–258, https://doi.org/10.2307/3…
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