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ASSAULT ON MEN Masculinity and Male Victimization
Elizabeth A Stanko,Kathy Hobdell +1 more
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Theoretical issues about male recipients of violence, about ways to offer support to men who experience violence through an understanding about the context of masculinities in men's lives, and about gender and theorizing in the field of criminology are raised.Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of an exploratory study of how men experience criminally defined physical violence. It places men's responses explicitly within a framework that takes masculinity seriously. This paper concludes by raising theoretical issues about male recipients of violence, about ways to offer support to men who experience violence through an understanding about the context of masculinities in men's lives, and about gender and theorizing in the field of criminology.read more
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Perceptions and attributions of child, spousal, and elder abuse.
TL;DR: This paper examined 480 college students' abuse history and perceptions of child, spousal, and elder abuse by varying the respondent, victim, and perpetrator genders, and found that participants viewed spousAL abuse as less serious and harmful than other abuse types, especially when perpetrated against a male or by a female.
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Gendering Violence: theorising the links between men, masculinities and violence
TL;DR: This paper argued that men's violence against women can best be understood in the context of men's other violences, including men's gendered violence against other men, and that strategies to address one form of men’s violence need to address other forms of men' violence.
Gender, Masculinity, Contemporary History and the Psychiatric Secure Estate: Back to the Future?
Jason L. Powell,Paul J. Taylor +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined women and gender in the psychiatric secure estate from a structural analysis drawing influence from Connell's (1987) theoretical and conceptual work on hegemonic masculinity.
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Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach
Lawrence E. Cohen,Marcus Felson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a "routine activity approach" is presented for analyzing crime rate trends and cycles. But rather than emphasizing the characteristics of offenders, with this approach, the authors concentrate upon the circumstances in which they carry out predatory criminal acts, and hypothesize that the dispersion of activities away from households and families increases the opportunity for crime and thus generates higher crime rates.
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Surviving sexual violence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a guide to transcription of interviews and a summary of previous research on sexual violence and women's empowerment, focusing on the following: 1. "Sharing a Particular Pain": Researching Sexual Violence 2. A Central Issue: Sexual Violence and Feminist Theory 3.
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Women, violence, and social change
TL;DR: In this article, women, violence and social change demonstrates how refuges and shelters stand as the core of the battered women's movement, providing a basis for pragmatic support, political action and radical renewal.