Full Description
James W. Messerschmidt's Masculinities and Crime quickly became a classic text for social scientists examining the relationship between masculinities and crime. The book is completely revised and unique in its focus on Messerschmidt's most important research and theorizing accomplished over the last twenty-five years, as well as for its emphasis on selected studies by other scholars that represent the diversity of contemporary research on masculinities and crime. This anniversary edition brings together a combination of the "old" and the "new" to examine what insight each have to offer scholars in terms of knowledge about the social construction of masculinities and crime.
Contents
Foreword to the Anniversary Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Anniversary Edition
Section I: Theory
1 Structured Action Theory
Section II: Crime in History
2 Racist Lynchers
3 Reformed Hustler
Section III: Youth Violence and Nonviolence
4 Assaultive Violence: Lenny and Perry
5 Sexual Violence: Sam and Zack
6 Nonviolent Boys: Jerry and Dennis
7 Assaultive Girls: Tina and Kelly
Corporate and Political Crime
8 Murderous Managers
9 Perilous Presidents
Conclusion
Notes
References
About the author
