SOCL 2505 Chapter : Blaire Jacobs Luckenbill Summary SOCL 4461
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Luckenbill article summary-criminal homicide as a situated transaction. In david luckenbill"s article, he explains the situations that lead up to a crime, and also the play-by-play situations that lead up to a crime, from the first blow or punch, etc. to eventually sometimes death or serious harm. In reality, no one has really dived into this sort of research. Usually, as humans, we are just concerned with the drama, the final story of who got injured and who did the crime and what happened while the crime was occurring. The victim, and bystanders that observe the crime, also play a certain role in the crime and luckenbill wants to see why exactly they are the targeted persons. Goffman deemed the term character contest to define the confrontation. At the expense of another and in the face of adversity, the opponents sought to maintain face by remaining stable.
