Masculinities, Violence, and Culture
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...Gatens in Hatty (2000) writes aptly, ‘The spectacular cruelty of such crimes only serves to mask the underlying banality of a largely unchallenged structural cruelty in many of our social relations’ (2000: 208)....
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...Academic literature addresses domestic and other forms of violence against adult women in some depth (e.g. Brownmiller, 1975; Russell, 1975; Sunday and Toback, 1985; MacKinnon, 1987; Sweetman, 1998; Hatty, 2000; Scully, 2001; Chancer, 2004)....
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...In one study, two-thirds of the homicides were planned, and many were preceded by intentionally abusive behaviors such as stalking (Hatty, 2000: 70)....
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...Statistical evidence also shows that juveniles in the United States commit more crimes today than in the past (US Department of Justice, 1994; Hatty, 2000); criminologists consider gender to be the strongest predictor of criminal involvement (Messerschmidt, 2000)....
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...Many societies have been traditionally shaped by a patriarchal belief system under which hegemonic masculinity embracing hierarchy, aggression and heterosexuality is valued (Dutton, 2006; Hatty, 2000)....
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...Hatty (2000) asserts that in modern industrialised nations men are generally considered capable of causing more harm to others than are women....
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