Masculinities and Crime: Critique and Reconceptualization of Theory / Edition 1

by James W. Messerschmidt, R. W. Connell

Overview

Challenging the common masculinist character of criminological research, James W. Messerschmidt develops an elaborate scrutiny of the gender roles that, along with class and race, influence the occurrence and types of crimes in our society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847678693
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/28/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

James W. Messerschmidt is professor at the University of Southern Maine. He is also the author of Capitalism, Patriarchy and Crime (Rowman & Littlefield).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Gender and Criminological Theory Chapter 4 Rethinking Feminist Theory Chapter 5 Structured Action and Gendered Crime Chapter 6 "Boys Will Be Boys" Differently Chapter 7 Varieties of "Real Men" Chapter 8 The State and Gender Politics Chapter 9 Notes Chapter 10 References

What People are Saying About This

Nancy Jurik

A pathbreaking analysis of the social construction of gender and its link to criminality. A decisive step beyond role-based theories of gender and crime. Finally, a thorough analysis of women, men and crime.

Susan L. Caufield

Masculinities and Crime is an important step in the continuing development of criminological theory . . . addressing the fact that crime is, if nothing else, primarily the province of men.

Editorial Reviews

This is, as Connell rightly points out in his foreword, a book written with 'imagination and passion' . . . It . . . pulls together a lot of apparently disconnected fragments of knowledge with . . . felicity . . . As well as being a very good book, it is also probably the first attempt to rethink criminology in the light of the new work on men and masculinities . . .

British Journal of Criminology - Tony Jefferson

A pathbreaking analysis of the social construction of gender and its link to criminality. A decisive step beyond role-based theories of gender and crime. Finally, a thorough analysis of women, men and crime.

Nancy Jurik

Masculinities and Crime is an important step in the continuing development of criminological theory . . . addressing the fact that crime is, if nothing else, primarily the province of men.

Susan L. Caufield

Masculinities and Crime is an important step in the continuing development of criminological theory . . . addressing the fact that crime is, if nothing else, primarily the province of men.

Susan L. Caulfield

His critique of deficiencies in criminological and sex-role theories is excellent, and I commend it as an accessible introduction to the issues.

American Journal of Sociology - Kathleen Daly

. . . compactly presented and even more cogently argued . . . deserves the largest audience, if only because of the importance of the debate it is sure to generate . . . Messerschmidt is to be commended for humanizing the study of criminality and demonstrating its complex link to gender construction in contemporary society.

The Criminologist

His critique of deficiencies in criminological and sex-role theories is excellent, and I commend it as an accessible introduction to the issues.
— Kathleen Daly

American Journal of Sociology

This is, as Connell rightly points out in his foreword, a book written with 'imagination and passion' . . . It . . . pulls together a lot of apparently disconnected fragments of knowledge with . . . felicity . . . As well as being a very good book, it is also probably the first attempt to rethink criminology in the light of the new work on men and masculinities . . .
— Tony Jefferson

British Journal Of Criminology