Frank Carlson Library

Lonnie Athens was raised in a violent world. His father was a hot-tempered man who shot at strangers and beat his wife and literally bashed his sons' heads together. So when Athens began studying for his doctorate in Criminology at Berkeley, it was only natural that he was fascinated with the question of what makes people violent. He decided to conduct in-depth interviews with several hundred violent prison inmates, an endeavor which spanned a...