Just Boys Doing Business?: Men, Masculinities and Crime / Edition 1

by Tim Newburn, Elizabeth A Stanko

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415093200
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/30/1995
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	302
Sales rank:	1,048,818
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tim Newburn, Elizabeth A Stanko

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"Every 15 to 20 years a book appears that resets the course of criminology, providing an innovative way to conceptualize crime and justice issues. "Just Boys Doing Business? promises to be one of those books. For those who wish to move beyond the simple binarisms of masculine/feminine and the essentialist categories of conventional criminology, this collection will show the way."
-Nicole Hahn Rafter

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