Full Description
Providing a detailed survey of the author's work over three decades, this book chronicles Tomsen's studies of interpersonal violence and masculinities, which initiated new approaches and topic areas and informed related theorising.
These novel approaches in social science research sparked new pathways of understanding, which are outlined and evaluated in discussions of contemporary research and theoretical debates regarding masculinities and violence. The work reflects phases of study concerning (1) public (and related "private") urban male violence; (2) anti-gay/anti-queer assaults and homicides, hate crimes, and the ambivalent official responses to these; (3) the ambiguous views of violence and different masculinities that are generated and circulate in criminal justice systems, and in popular (film and online) culture; and (4) frames of understanding masculine violence that have emerged in recent decades to further explain and address the apparent intractability of much offending, its relationship to related forms of social privilege or disadvantage, and preventive measures and programmes that are intended to counter this.
Crime, Violence and Masculinities provides insight into the long-term production of knowledge about masculinity and gendered violence that will benefit readers engaged in researching these topics, as well as those with an interest in research results and their translation into related theory more broadly.
Contents
Introduction. Section 1: Drinking Violence and Night Leisure as a Masculine Domain. 1. A TOP NIGHT: Social Protest, Masculinity and the Culture of Drinking Violence. 2. 'Boozers and Bouncers': Masculine Conflict, Disengagement and the Contemporary Governance of Drinking-Related Violence and Disorder. 3. A dangerous proximity: The night-time economy and the city's early morning. 4. Nightlife Ethnography, Violence, Policing and Security. Section 2: The Masculinity of Hate Crime and the Legal Response. 5. Engendering homophobia: violence, sexuality and gender conformity. 6. Hate Crimes and Masculine Offending. 7. Social and cultural meanings of legal responses to homicide among men: Masculine honour, sexual advances and accidents. 8. Victimhood, truth and criminal justice failure in relation to anti-homosexual violence and killings in New South Wales. Section 3: Violent Masculinities in Criminal Justice and Culture. 9. Ruling Men? Some Comments on Masculinity and Juvenile Justice. 10. Masculinities, Crime and Criminalisation. 11. Violence and Carceral Masculinities in Felony Fights. 12. Crime and Masculinity in Popular Culture. Section 4: Structure, Identity, and Practice. 13. Masculinities, structure and hegemony. 14. Masculinities and Interpersonal Violence. 15. Beyond Honour and Achieved Hegemony: Violence and the Everyday Masculinities of Young Men. 16. Masculinities and the Lived Understandings of Bystander Responses to Everyday Violence.
