Description
Book Synopsis Masculinities, Crime and Criminology presents an innovative and timely reading of issues which are central to the questions that have arisen in criminology: Why is crime so overwhelmingly an activity conducted by men? Is crime a `masculine' phenomena?
Richard Collier explores a number of high-profile events and debates around crime, criminal justice and social (dis)order, and examines recent criminological, media and political interpretations of the relationship between men, masculinities and crime.
Table of Contents
Sex, Gender and the (Criminal) Bodies of Men Sex, Gender and the (Criminal) Bodies of Men Boys′ Own Stories? Law, Criminology and (Un)Sexy Bodies The `Trouble with Boys′? The Child, the Social and the Dangerous Other `A Lonely Man with a Passion for Guns′ Crime, Community and the Heterosexualized Body Absent Fathers, Criminal Sons and Straight Men The Heterosexual Family and the Family of Crime Concluding Remarks `Taking Masculinity Seriously′? Theory, Practice and the (Hetero)Sexing of Criminology
