1st Edition

Betrayal and Betrayers The Sociology of Treachery

By Malin Akerstrom Copyright 1991
165 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

Betrayal has a deep fascination. It captures our imagination in part because we have all betrayed or been betrayed, in small or large ways. Despite this there has been little serious work on the subject. It was this absence that inspired this book.As Akerstrom notes, betrayal is something that most people have encountered at some point in their lives. She defines betrayal as a breach of trust,... Read more
101: Introduction; 1: Betrayal and Betrayers; 2: Third Party Views; 3: Heroes or Traitors?; 4: Neutrality as Betrayal; 5: Avoidance of Betrayal; 6: A One-Context Analysis: Crime and Informers; 6a: Outcasts in Prison; 6b: The Social Construction of Snitches; 6c: Snitches on Snitching; 7: Cronstedt: A Concluding Illustration

Biography

Malin Akerstrom