1st Edition
Nine Lives Adolescent Masculinities, The Body And Violence
By James Messerschmidt
Copyright 2000
168 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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
Biography
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).
