Jack Katz

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Jack Katz (born October 16, 1944 in New York City ) is an American sociologist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). With Seductions of Crime , he presented a new approach to the declaration of crime in 1988, in which he focused on the perpetrator's experience.

Life

At Colgate University in New York, Katz received his bachelor's degree in 1966. Three years later, he earned a Juris Doctor ( JD ) degree from the University of Chicago Law School . He then moved to Northwestern University in Illinois , where he received his Ph.D. received his doctorate . From 1977 to 1979 he was then a research assistant at Yale Law School . In 1979 he went to Los Angeles at UCLA, where he was first assistant professor of sociology, then associate professor and finally professor from 1989. He has now retired . His teaching areas are social psychology , ethnographic methods, urban sociology and criminology .

Seductions of Crime

In Seductions of Crime, Katz (re) arranges criminal offenses based on the emotional states that are decisive in the commission. Instead of tracing delinquency back to background factors such as low socio-economic status, he focuses on the positive stimuli of criminal offenses or the “experience” of crime from the perpetrator's point of view, i.e. on the emotions and sensory impressions that lead to the act or arise during the act .

Fonts (selection)

  • German-language collection of articles: About freaking drivers and crying. Investigations into the emotional metamorphosis of the self . Edited, translated and introduced by Hubert Knoblauch , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-09689-2 .
  • How emotions work . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1999, ISBN 0-226-42599-1 .
  • Seductions of crime. Moral and sensual attractions in doing evil . Basic Books, New York 1988, ISBN 0-465-07616-5 .
  • Poor people's lawyers in transition . Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 1982, ISBN 0-813-50943-2 .

literature

  • David Polizzi (Ed.): Jack Katz. Seduction, the street and emotion . Emerald Publishing, Bingley 2020, ISBN 978-1-787-56073-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ KATZ, Jack 1944- , Encyclopedia.com.
  2. ↑ Professional biographical information is based on: Vita: Jack Katz, Professor of Sociology, UCLA .
  3. ^ UCLA Sociology Department, Emeriti.
  4. ↑ Information on "Seductions of Crime" is based on: Seductions of Crime (Katz) . In: SozTheo, sociological and criminological resource collection, Christian Wickert (Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Police and Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia).
personal data
SURNAME Katz, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City