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Lonnie Athens

Criminal Justice

#23

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#30

Historical Rank

#17

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Criminology

#10

World Rank

#16

Historical Rank

#6

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Lonnie Athens

Sociology

#320

World Rank

#404

Historical Rank

#152

USA Rank

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Lonnie Athens's Degrees

PhD Criminology University of Illinois Chicago
Masters Criminology University of Illinois Chicago
Bachelors Sociology University of Illinois Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Life Early life Born in Richmond, Virginia, Athens lived with his parents, Irene and Pete Athens. His early environment is characterized as being violent and Athens was the victim of domestic violence. He was educated at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where he began by majoring in political science but later changed his major to Sociology and Criminology. After graduating from Virginia Tech, Athens continued his criminology studies at the University of Wisconsin.

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Lonnie Athens's Published Works

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Published Works

The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals (1989) (145)
The self as a soliloquy (1994) (108)
‘Domination’ (2002) (79)
Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited (1997) (68)
Radical Interactionism: Going Beyond Mead* (2007) (67)
Naturalistic Inquiry in Theory and Practice (2010) (66)
DRAMATIC SELF CHANGE (1995) (61)
‘Domination’: The Blind Spot in Mead’s Analysis of the Social Act (2002) (54)
The Roots of “Radical Interactionism” (2009) (47)
Social psychology of aggression : from individual behavior to social interaction (1985) (45)
Violent Encounters (2005) (44)
Violent Criminal Acts and Actors: A Symbolic Interactionist Study (1980) (35)
Mead's Lost Conception of Society (2005) (34)
Violent Crime: A Symbolic Interactionist Study† (1977) (32)
Human Subordination from a Radical Interactionist's Perspective (2010) (30)
DOMINANCE, GHETTOS, AND VIOLENT CRIME (1998) (26)
Character Contests and Violent Criminal Conduct: A Critique* (1985) (26)
Domination and Subjugation in Everyday Life (2015) (23)
How Institutions Form: Loose Coupling as Mechanism in Gouldner's Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy (2006) (22)
The Self and the Violent Criminal Act (1974) (21)
Violent Encounters : Violent Engagements , Skirmishes , and Tiffs (2005) (17)
Violent criminal acts and actors (1980) (16)
THE NOVEL: DISCLOSING THE SELF IN A CREATIVE SOCIAL ACT (2005) (13)
“Radical” and “symbolic” interactionism: Demarcating their borders (2013) (13)
Interactionism: The Growing Threat of Intellectual Extinction (2011) (12)
Violent acts and violentization : assessing, applying, and developing Lonnie Athens' theories (2003) (12)
Violent crime : historical and contemporary issues (1980) (10)
Mead’s Analysis of Social Conflict: A Radical Interactionist’s Critique (2012) (10)
Violentization: A Relatively Singular Theory of Violent Crime (2015) (10)
Park’s Theory of Conflict and His Fall From Grace in Sociology (2013) (8)
Three Tales From Melting Pot Boils Over (2004) (7)
Old World Sexism Transplanted (2008) (6)
Mead and Park: A “Socio-Biographical” account of their becoming pragmatists, but developing opposing interactional viewpoints (2016) (6)
Who Is Better Than Whom? Two Tales From Melting Pot Boils Over (2006) (5)
Mental Health and Violence. (1987) (5)
Mead’s conception of the social act: A radical interactionist’s critique (2013) (5)
The Amorous Salesman Pays A Call: (“Be Patient Please, Floyd Pumice Aims To Please”) (2005) (5)
Greek Americanism, "New Greece," and Greek Orthodoxy. (1996) (4)
Romantic Product Salesmen: A Bygone Occupation (2005) (4)
Blood Is Thicker Than Water (2007) (4)
“Trouble Comes in Threes” (2010) (4)
Applying Violentization: From Theory to Praxis (2017) (3)
The Belated Appearance of “Radical Interactionism” on the American Sociological Stage: the Rise of G.H.Mead and Fall of Robert Park (2017) (3)
Mass Murder: America's Growing Menace. (1986) (3)
ONE MAN’S STORY: HOW I BECAME A “DISORGANIZED,” DANGEROUS VIOLENT CRIMINAL (2004) (3)
The Human Habitat: a Systemization and Critique of Park’s Theory from a Radical Interactionist Perspective (2018) (3)
The “Struggle for Recognition” (or “Status”) as the Basis for Internecine Conflict in Diverse Modern Societies?: Book Review (2017) (2)
Mead, George Herbert (1863–1931) (2007) (2)
The Renunciation of Robert E. Park: Myths about his Sociological Work (2020) (2)
A Radical Interactionist’s Theory of Societal Change: Going beyond Park (2021) (2)
The Self-Revelations of 20th and 21st Century Interactionists: Breaking the “Academic Mold” (2012) (2)
Old World Immigrants (2008) (2)
“Color, Creed, and Character” (2009) (1)
Blue Ribbon Papers: Interactionism: the Emerging Landscape (2011) (1)
Violent Acts and Violentization (2003) (1)
Radical Interactionism on the Rise (2013) (1)
The Belated Appearance of “Radical Interactionism” on the American Sociological Stage: the Rise of G.H.Mead and Fall of Robert Park (2016) (1)
Interactionism : the emerging landscape (2011) (0)
Stage One: Brutalization: Violent Coaching (2017) (0)
Stage One: Brutalization: Violent Subjugation (2017) (0)
The Research Rationale and Strategy (2017) (0)
The Human Habitat: a Systemization and Critique of Park’s Theory from a Radical Interactionist Perspective (2018) (0)
Stage Two: Belligerency (2017) (0)
Stage Four: Virulency (2017) (0)
Stage One: Brutalization: Personal Horrification (2017) (0)
Dangerous Violent Criminals (2017) (0)
A symbolic interactionist's approach to violent criminal acts (1987) (0)
Introduction to ‘blue ribbon papers’: Investigating the empirical world (2009) (0)
Mead’s Analysis of Social Conflict: A Radical Interactionist’s Critique (2012) (0)
The inauguration of the “Blue-Ribbon Papers” (2008) (0)
Stage Three: Violent Performances (2017) (0)
Stage Four: Virulency (Extract) (2012) (0)
The Key to the Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals (2017) (0)
A Radical Interactionist’s Theory of Societal Change: Going beyond Park (2021) (0)
The Renunciation of Robert E. Park: Myths about his Sociological Work (2020) (0)

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