Crime, Criminal Justice and Masculinities

by Tomsen,Stephen; Tomsen,Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780754627401
• ISBN10: 0754627403
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781351570664
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781351570671
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume features the leading contemporary articles that are part of, or related to, the 'new masculinities' approach in this sphere, comprising an impressive range of theoretical and empirical work, including important cultural and ethnographic analyses. The material is selected from flagship international journals and was produced by a global mix of male and female researchers with diverse disciplinary backgrounds.

Table of Contents

Series preface

Introduction

Theoretical Perspectives

Daubing the drudges of fury: men, violence, and the piety of the 'hegemonic masculinity' thesis

Subordinating hegemonic masculinity

On hegemonic masculinity and violence: response to Jefferson and Hall

Making bodies matter: adolescent masculinities, the body and varieties of violence

After Dunblane: crime, corporeality and the (hetero-)sexing of the bodies of men

The Spectrum of Masculine Crime

Culture, masculinities and violence against women

Assault on men: masculinity and male victimization

Enacting masculinity: anti-gay violence and group rape as participatory theater

Situational construction of masculinity among male street thieves

Managing to kill: masculinities and the space shuttle Challenger explosion

Criminal careers, desistance and subjectivity: interpreting men's narratives of change

Cultural and Ethnographic Analyses

Masculinity and heroism in the Hollywood 'blockbuster': the culture industry and contemporary images of crime and law

In search of the high life: drugs, crime, masculinities and consumption

In search of masculinity: violence, respect and sexuality among Puerto Rican crack dealers in East Harlem

'Boozers and bouncers': masculine conflict, disengagement and the contemporary governance of drinking-related violence and disorder

Hard men, shop boys and others: embodying competence in a masculinist occupation

'Ducktails, flick-knives and pugnacity': subcultural and hegemonic masculinities in South Africa, 1948-1960

Criminal Justice Settings: 'There oughtta be a law against bitches': masculinity lessons in police academy training

Men behind bars: 'doing' masculinity as an adaptation to imprisonment

Snakes and ladders: upper-middle class male offenders talk about economic crime

Managing marginalised masculinities: men and probation

Towards safer societies: punishment, masculinities and violence against women

Name index

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