Situational Construction of Masculinity among Male Street Thieves

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2365115
AutoresH Copes (0000-0001-8029-1837, University of Alabama at Birmingham, autor de correspondencia), Andy Hochstetler (0000-0003-2158-2620, Iowa State University)
Año2003
Volumen32
Número3
Páginas279-304
Fecha de publicación2003-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891241603032003002
OpenAlexW2103457992
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas33
Referencias citadas38

Increasingly, theorists recognize that the influence of masculinity on decision making is situationally contingent and embedded in interactions. Using interviews with ninety-four male street thieves, the authors describe the situations that bring constructions of masculinity into the foreground of street crime. In certain situations, men are likely to engage in criminal behavior as a mechanism for constructing their masculinity. The authors find that hanging with criminally capable associates and partying are critically significant for understanding when masculine concerns bear on criminal decision making. In these situations, copresent others interpret inappropriate actions or responses as definitive signs of weakness, passivity, and failure in the struggle to be a man. They also examine how age and criminal experience shape conceptions of masculinity and the style of their enactment

Criminology · Masculinity · Situational ethics · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · History · Psychology · Social Psychology