Jack Katz's Seduction of Crime

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This paper is both my report and review of sociologist Jack Katz's book,

Seductions of Crime. I am quite fascinated with the ideas of criminology, so I found this

book's ideas and stories interesting. Katz uses much logic in trying to explain things that I

can relate to, but in many instances it seems to come across to me as if he were trying to

make excuses for the criminals he depicts. In all of his accounts, the stories were based on

The best way to try to prove a thesis is to use many different ways of

experimentation and gathering data. Katz used a wide variety of sources to conclude to

his theories. He got a grasp on the entire situation of every single criminal incident before

he analyzed them. His information on shoplifting, burglary, and vandalism came from a

group of university students he did a study on for three years. Most of the information he

used for robberies came from a study done in Chicago by Franklin Zimring and James

Zuehl. The rest of his data, which includes most of the book, was taken from graduate

students who did their research in Eastern and Southern Los Angeles.

Katz calls his first chapter "Righteous Slaughter". He believes most

to my understanding of some of his concepts. He matches "scoring" with touchdowns,

parade their "menace" in public. He deems violence as the deepest challenge and very

was: "That's a good question. A valid question. I may as well have just killed-but I'm a

brigade. They were supported by bands such as the "Sex Pistols" and "The Clash", I still

seem to paraphrase what had previously say in easier or what I would call "lamen's

risks. The ideals behind this "clique" were started in the 1970's as an "anti-hippy"

Approximate Word count = 2231
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)

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