Nine Lives: Adolescent Masculinities, The Body And Violence / Edition 1

by James Messerschmidt

Overview

This book presents the life stories of nine boys to examine the differential use of violence as a resource for "doing masculinity" in specific situations and circumstances thus helping us understand the highly gendered ratio of crime in industrialized societies as well as national tragedies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367157395
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/19/2020
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

James W. Messerschmidt is Professor of Sociology in the Criminology Department at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of The Trial of Leonard Peltier (1983), Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Crime (1986), Masculinities and Crime (1993), Crime as Structured Action (1997), and Criminology (3rd ed.) with Piers Beirne (2000).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Sam 3. Hugh 4. From Predisposition to Violent Event Family, School, and Violent Predispositions 5. Jerry 6. Nonviolence and Social Change Violent Versus Nonviolent Boys