Abstract:In this interview for the Dilemas issue on robbery, violence and the city, Katz is first asked (1) how he came to study deviance and the "seductions of crime" and (2) the importance of thinking about the phenomenon of crime taking into account the dark side of empathy. Furthermore, he is questioned about (3) how to perform an ethnography when we might deal with practices as difficult to access as those involving illegal and illicit activities and the importance of understanding, from a methodological point of … Show more
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