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Assessing Violence Risk In Tarasoff Situations: A Fact-Based Model Of Inquiry, Randy Borum Jan 2001

Assessing Violence Risk In Tarasoff Situations: A Fact-Based Model Of Inquiry, Randy Borum

Randy Borum

No abstract provided.


Preventing Targeted Violence Against Judicial Officials And Courts, Bryan Vossekuil, Randy Borum, Robert Fein, Marisa Reddy Jan 2001

Preventing Targeted Violence Against Judicial Officials And Courts, Bryan Vossekuil, Randy Borum, Robert Fein, Marisa Reddy

Randy Borum

No abstract provided.


Narrative's Virtues, Art Bochner Jan 2001

Narrative's Virtues, Art Bochner

Art Bochner

Reacting to the charge that personal narratives, especially illness narratives, constitute a “blind alley” that misconstrues the essential nature of narrative by substituting a therapeutic for a sociological view of the person, this article speaks back to critics who regard narratives of suffering as privileged, romantic, and/or hyperauthentic. The author argues that this critique of personal narrative rests on an idealized and discredited theory of inquiry, a monolithic conception of ethnographic inquiry, a distinctly masculine characterization of sociology, and a veiled resistance to the moral, political, existential, and therapeutic goals of this work. Layering his responses to the critique with …