Author : Tim Newburn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136143963
What is it about crime that makes it `men's work'? Can we imagine masculinity without crime? This is the first book of its kind to bring contributors from three continents together to examine the relationship between masculinity and crime. Covering such areas as policing, prisons, violence against women, homicide, white-collar crime, and male victimisation, this book will force us to rethink many aspects of masculinity and crime.
Author : Tim Newburn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136144048
What is it about crime that makes it `men's work'? Can we imagine masculinity without crime? This is the first book of its kind to bring contributors from three continents together to examine the relationship between masculinity and crime. Covering such areas as policing, prisons, violence against women, homicide, white-collar crime, and male victimisation, this book will force us to rethink many aspects of masculinity and crime.
Author : Sarah Kingston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 2020-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315517590
Drawing on empirical data from women who pay for sexual services and those who provide services to women, this ground-breaking study is the first of its kind in the UK, detailing the experiences of women who pay for sex in an explicit, direct, prearranged way. Unlike previous research on clients, which has predominantly focused on men who buy sex or women who engage in romance tourism in places such as the Caribbean, this innovative research offers new and original insights into the demand side of commercial sex. Too often, it is assumed that only men pay for sex from women or other men. Women are assumed to be service providers and are unimaginable as clients. This book therefore offers a radical departure from existing scholarship on commercial sex. In addition, the book examines the experiences of couples who pay for commercial sex, a client group that has received scant investigation. The book explores women’s reasons for their engagement in commercial sex services, their backgrounds and characteristics, their strategies for remaining safe and managing potential risks, as well as their sexual health strategies. The nature of sexual service bookings with women clients is also examined, exploring the types of services women seek, the places where bookings occur and the fess they pay. Finally, the experiences of men, women and trans sex workers who provide sexual services to women are examined. By drawing on our unique data and comparing it to the literature on men clients, we present our theory ‘Converging Sexualities’. We argue that commercial sex is a site of behavioural convergence and that women clients are behaving in ways that could be described as masculine or feminine. Our study therefore offers new ways to understand sexuality. This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of sexuality, sex work and women’s behaviour.
Author : Ingrid Lander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131709994X
Over recent decades criminological research has changed from a gender-blind discipline which equated crime with men and thus ignored questions about gender, to an approach that studied gender by showing statistical differences between men and women, and then finally to a more inclusive and elaborate gender-theoretical approach to crime and crime control. However, despite this development, research on gender - and in particular research on gendered norms and the construction and enactment of masculinities - within the criminological field has been unable to keep up with developments in gender research. Since 1990, only a few anthologies with a gender-theoretical orientation focusing on masculinities within the criminological research field have been published. Many of the theoretical developments in gender research still have difficulties in reaching into mainstream criminology, partly because such developments are often published in feminist and/or gender theoretical journals. This volume both problematizes and renders visible conceptions and norms regarding male behaviour and masculinities and shows how these affect the criminological field through providing a theoretically sound and clear gender perspective to this field of research. With sections based around the following three themes: negotiations of masculinity in institutional settings, vulnerable masculinities and risk-taking and masculinities, this volume will be of interest to scholars of criminology, sociology, social work and gender studies, as well as policy-makers, and law enforcement professionals.
Author : N. Macdonald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230511740
This book is the most extensive contribution to our understanding of the graffiti subculture to date. Using insights from ethnographic research conducted in London and New York, the author explores the varying ways young men use graffiti to construct masculinity, claim power and establish independence from the institutions which define and often limit them as young people. Forging a link between subcultural practice and identity construction, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in new understandings of youth and their subcultures.
Author : Colin Sumner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0470998954
The Blackwell Companion to Criminology provides a contemporary and global resource to scholarship in both classical and topical areas of criminology. Written accessibly, and with its international perspective and first-rate scholarship, this is truly the first global handbook of criminology. Editors and contributors are international experts in criminology, offering a comparative perspective on theories and systems Contains full discussion of key debates and theories, the implications of new topics, studies and ideas, and contemporary developments Coverage includes: class, gender, and race, criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, punishment, mass media, international crimes, and social control
Author : Julie Scott Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131706268X
Risks, Identities and the Everyday focuses on the individual and the lived experience of everyday risks - a departure from the focus on risk from a macro level. The contributors look at risk and how perceptions of risk, risk taking, and risk assessment increasingly dominate our everyday lives and explore it in a variety of settings not previously associated with risk theory, including: plastic surgery, teenage sub-cultures, ageing and independent travel. The volume moves risk away from abstract theorising about what people may or may not fear about risks, to focus on how it actually materialises and operates in everyday 'real' social interactions and contexts. It also interrogates the rational self at the heart of macro social theories by thinking through the construction of risk choices and the socio-cultural dynamics that 'present' some risks as acceptable, appropriate and necessary.
Author : Lisa White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135981175
As politicians, public bodies and non-Governmental organisations continue to profess an interest in making peace with the past, this highly original study explores the motivation, significance and legacy of ‘making public’ experiences of state violence in Northern Ireland. Based on a synthesis of documentary material with the findings from a series of contemporary interviews, this timely book uncovers the reasoning behind many Republican former detainees’ accounts of state violence and torture. It examines the aims of those who ‘went public’ during the conflict and discusses the meaning they attached to their stories and the various responses to them. It also identifies some of the risks involved in criticising the violence of the British State and illuminates the ways in which ‘truths’ are often contested in Northern Ireland - both during the conflict and in the years which have followed. A unique piece of interdisciplinary work, the study disentangles and evaluates the discourses presented by former detainees and makes an innovative and interesting contribution to knowledge about transitional justice and legacies of state violence. The book is suitable for social science scholars interested in human rights, state violence, criminology and transitional justice, as well as those seeking to understand more about experiences of imprisonment and the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict.
Author : Jennifer S. Wilkov
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1600378110
Why do some women seem to have it all – the relationship, the career and the life of their dreams? Kim Mylls and Jennifer S. Wilkov know the answer and have cracked the code for how to live your extraordinary life. This controversial approach of putting your relationship with your man before your career is the magic formula. It’s possible to find your Prince Charming and have a fulfilling career. To do this, you’ll need to know what you want and you’ll need to put Boys Before Business. After finding their true loves using the principles in this book, Kim and Jennifer offer practical and straightforward advice on how to find your true love, have a great relationship, flourish in your career, and live the life you love. The tips and exercises in this book will not only inspire you but propel you into action. Kim and Jennifer are committed to helping women everywhere enjoy their lives by teaching you how to get clear about what you want, define the life you want to live, identify and find your Prince Charming, create an environment for your relationship to flourish, infuse your business and career with the tips, tools and techniques that make your relationships extraordinary, and commit to a life beyond what you've imagined. Whether you’re the single girl who’s never been married or if you’re divorced or widowed, if you’re looking for love and balance, and if you still want it all, this is the book for you. We’re excited to help you find the man of your dreams and live the life you love.
Author : Deborah Brock
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442607130
What is a crime and how do we construct it? The answers to these questions are complex and entangled in a web of power relations that require us to think differently about processes of criminalization and regulation. This book draws on Foucault's concept of governmentality as a lens to analyze and critique how crime is understood, reproduced, and challenged. It explores the dynamic interplay between practices of representation, processes of criminalization, and the ways that these circulate to both reflect and constitute crime and "justice."
