NCJ Number
176508
Editor(s)
L H Bowker
Date Published
1998
Length
285 pages
Annotation
This book consists of essays on the causes and settings of masculine violence.
Abstract
The first section of papers, "Learning Violence," opens with a paper that identifies and discusses five system levels relevant to masculine violence: the cultural, social, economic, personality, and biological systems. The second paper documents the contribution made to masculine violence by Saturday morning toy commercials, which socialize boys in a conception of masculinity that includes a willingness to use aggression to achieve desired goals. Another paper in this section profiles Brazilian torturers and murderers as products of the bureaucratization of masculinities. Part II, "Masculinities and Violence," begins with a broad research synthesis on the victimization of women by men that summarizes what has been learned by social scientists about diverse forms of men's violence against women. Another paper continues this theme by examining similarities and divergences of masculinities in gang rape and wife battery. Another paper in this section develops a preliminary topology of sexual and nonsexual aspects of the coaching abuse of junior and senior high school girls by their male coaches and trainers. Three papers focus on the victimization of men by other men, with attention to lynchings from 1865 through 1900, a typology of gang masculinities, and hypermasculinity and prison violence. The concluding section of papers on "Masculinities and Organizational Violence" contains two papers on institutional contributions to violence, namely, the Dow Corning silicone-breast-implant case of corporate crime and the engendering of violent men in the military system. 486 references and a subject index