Providing a detailed survey of the authors work over three decades, this book chronicles Tomsens 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.
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.
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 citys
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.
Stephen Tomsen is Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. Previously, he held visiting professorships and fellowships in the United Kingdom (Birkbeck College, Keele University, and the University of Manchester); the University of Washington (UW/Seattle); Leiden University and the Netherlands Ministry of Justice (Den Haag). He was a member of the sociology group at Macquarie University in the 1980s, and then a pioneer in the development of nightlife ethnographies, queer criminology, and crime and masculinity studies which all developed as new academic fields in the 1990s and 2000s. Stephen is especially known for research on violence, victims, gender, sexuality, drinking, and drug use, and the policing of social order. In 2018, he was awarded a life membership of Sydneys Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras recognising more than forty years of social activism and contributions to the LGBT community.
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