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8 Theoretical Criminology 5 (2004)

handle is hein.journals/thcr8 and id is 1 raw text is: Theoretical Criminology Q 2004 SAGE Publications London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi. Vol. 8(1): 5-31; 1362-4806 DOI: 10.1177/1362480604039739 I1- The will to violence WILLEM SCHINKEL Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Abstract Many social scientific accounts of interpersonal violence hold a few basic premises that are in this article contested as being one-sided. The explanation of violence dissolves the intrinsic character of the phenomenon and replaces the singular aspects of violence by a social-scientific explanatory ground. This explanatory social science is in this article called determinism. Supplementing determinism is a formalism of violence, which focuses on the aesthetics of violence and which, in so doing, retains the possibility of violence occurring for no reason other than itself. This kind of violence will be called autotelic violence. Cultural signs seem to justify the idea that violence can be a self-referential act, due to a will to violence. Key Words autotelic violence * theory * will to violence People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast could never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. (Fyodor Dostojevski, The Grand Inquisitor) Introduction 'Interpersonal violence is a phenomenon that is of increasing concern, both to politicians and policy-makers as well as to social scientists.' This would 5

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