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Seductions Of Crime: Moral And Sensual Attractions In Doing Evil
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In this paper, the authors discuss the role of gender and ethnicity in the background of doing stickup in street-elite street-slaying, and discuss the effect of race, gender, and ethnicity on the performance of hardmen and bad nigger.Abstract:
* Introduction * Righteous Slaughter * Sneaky Thrills * Ways of the Badass * Street Elites * Doing Stickup * Action, Chaos, and Control: Persisting with Stickup * Of Hardmen and Bad Niggers: Gender and Ethnicity in the Background of Stickup * Primordial Evil: Sense and Dynamic in Cold-Blooded, Senseless Murder * Seductions and Repulsions of Crimeread more
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