Just Boys Doing Business?: Men, Masculinities and Crime

ISBN-13: 9780415093217 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 302 str.

Tim Newburn;Elizabeth A Stanko;Tim Newburn

Opis

The most significant fact about crime is that it is almost always committed by men. However, academic consideration of crime tends to overlook this most obvious feature. If gender is discussed at all, it usually concerns women as the victims of crime. Just Boys Doing Business? challenges mainstream criminology by taking the social construction of masculinity as its focus. The text brings together a broad range of criminologists with international reputations. It appears at a time of increasing concern about levels of crime - especially among young men.

What is it about crime that makes it `men's work'? Can we imagine masculinity without crime? This is the first book of its kind to bring contributors from three continents together to examine the relationship between masculinity and crime. Covering such areas as policing, prisons, violence against women, homicide, white-collar crime, and male victimisation, this book will force us to rethink many aspects of masculinity and crime.

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