Just Boys Doing Business?: Men, Masculinities and Crime

ISBN-13: 9780415093200 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 302 str.

Tim Newburn

Opis

The most significant fact about crime is that it is almost always committed by men. Despite this, academic consideration of crime tends to overlook this most obvious feature. If gender is discussed at all, it is usually with women as the victims of crime. Just Boys Doing Business? challenges mainstream criminology by taking the social construction of masculinity as its focus. The book brings together a broad range of criminologists with established international reputations. It comes at a time when there is increasing concern about levels of crime - especially among young men. The contributors come from three continents and illustrate the international significance of a focus on masculinity when looking at crime. The editors are both established criminologists. Betsy Stanko is a pioneer of feminist criminology and both editors have published widely within and outside the discipline. This book should be of particular appeal to teachers and students of criminology, sociology, and gender studies, as well as to criminal justice practitioners.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1: Theorising masculine subjectivity; 2: Challenging the problem of men's individual violence; 3: Cop canteen culture; 4: Young black males; 5: Schooling, masculinities, and youth crime by white boys; 6: Tougher than the rest?; 7: Mannish boys; 8: What's the big deal?; 9: When men are victims; 10: Masculinity, honour and confrontational homicide; 11: Masculinities, violence and communitarian control; 12: Boys keep swinging; 13: Masculinities and white-collar crime

O autorze

Tim Newburn, Elizabeth A Stanko