Just boys doing business?
One of the most significant facts about crime is that it is almost always committed by men. Despite this, academic consideration of crime tends to overlook this most obvious feature. If gender is discussed at all, the focus is usually on women. Just Boys Doing Business? is the first collection to challenge mainstream criminology by taking the social construction of masculinity as its focus.
The book brings together a broad range of criminologists with established international reputations. It comes at a time when there is increasing concern about levels of crime especially among young men. The contributors come from three continents and illustrate the international significance of a focus on masculinity when looking at crime. The editors are both established criminologists and have published widely within and outside the discipline.
Just Boys Doing Business? will be of particular appeal to teachers and students of criminology, sociology and gender studies, as well as to criminal justice practitioners.
Tim Newburn is Head of Crime, Justice and Youth Studies at the Policy Studies Institute, London. Elizabeth A. Stanko is Reader in Law, Brunel University.
Contributors: John Braithwaite; Kathleen Daly; Nigel Fielding; Jewelle Taylor Gibbs; Alberto Godenzi; Dick Hobbs; Tony Jefferson; Michael Levi; Joseph R. Merighi; James W. Messerschmidt; Kenneth Polk; Rogan Taylor; Joe Sim; John Williams.
First published 1994
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Contents
Tim Newburn and Elizabeth A. Stanko
Tony Jefferson
Elizabeth A. Stanko
Nigel Fielding
Jewelle Taylor Gibbs and Joseph R. Merighi
James W. Messerschmidt
Joe Sim
Dick Hobbs
Alberto Godenzi
Tim Newburn and Elizabeth A. Stanko
Kenneth Polk
John Braithwaite and Kathleen Daly
John Williams and Rogan Taylor
Michael Levi
John Braithwaite is a Professor in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Queensland in 1977. He is author of numerous articles and books, most notable of which is Crime, Shame and Reintegration (Cambridge University Press 1989). Co-authored with Brent Fisse, his next book is Corporations, Crime and Accountability (Cambridge University Press).
Kathleen Daly is Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 1983, taught at the State University of New York at Albany, and was a member of the faculty at Yale University from 1983 to 1992. She is interested in applying feminist, sociological and legal theories to problems of crime and justice. Her book Gender, Crime and Punishment (1994) is published by Yale University Press.
Nigel Fielding is a Reader in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey and editor of the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. He is currently completing a book about community policing. Among his previous books are Joining Forces (Routledge 1988), a study of police training, The Police and Social Conflict (Athlone 1991), and Negotiating Nothing (co-author with Kemp and Norris, Avebury 1992), a study of police decision-making in disputes.
Alberto Godenzi is currently Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. He has been a development expert in Ecuador, a research associate in social psychology at the University of Zurich, a senior lecturer at the Universities of Zurich, Fribourg, and Berne, and director of GOAL Research and Consulting. He is a pioneer of studies on masculinity, interpersonal violence and crime, and the author of numerous articles and books (most published in German), including: Rape in Marriage (Social Research Institute Press 1987); Sexual Violence (Union Publishing 1989); Family Violence and Woman Abuse (Helbing and Lichtenhahn 1993).
Dick Hobbs is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Durham, UK He is author of Doing the Business (Oxford University Press 1988), which won the Philip Abrams Prize in 1989, and editor (with Tim May) of Interpreting the Field (Oxford University Press 1993); Policing Matters, Policing Changes (Bellew Publishing/Howard League 1993), and Professional Crime (Dartmouth Publishing 1994). He is currently working on a study of professional and organised crime to be published by Oxford University Press. He has published chapters and articles on a range of issues concerned with enterprise culture, criminal justice, research methods, and the sociology of deviant cultures.
Tony Jefferson is a Reader in Criminology at the University of Sheffield where he recently completed some research on race and the criminal justice system. He has written widely on questions relating to policing, race, crime, the media and youth culture including The Case Against Paramilitary Policing and several co-authored books; Introducing Policework (with M. Brodgen and S. Walklate); Interpreting Policework and Controlling the Constable (with R. Grimshaw); Policing the Crisis (with S. Hall et al.) and Resistance through Rituals (co-edited with S. Hall). He is a member of the editorial group responsible for Achilles Heel and is currently working on a book about Mike Tyson and masculinity.
Michael Levi is Professor of Criminology at the University of Wales at Cardiff. He is the author of The Phantom Capitalists (Gower, 1981); Regulating Fraud (Routledge 1988); Customer Confidentiality, Money-Laundering, and PoliceBank Relationships (Police Foundation 1991); and
