Holding Your Square

Bibliographic Data

ID19908115
AuthorsChristopher Mullins (0000-0002-3593-8344, corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-01-11
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHolding Your Square (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWillan (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4324/9781843926238
OpenAlexW2914652349
ISBN9781843926238
Open LibraryOL33617804M
LanguageEN
Citations received10

This book is about the meanings of masculinities within the social networks of the streets of an American city (St Louis, Missouri), and how these shaped perceptions and enactments of violence. Based on a large number of interviews with offenders the author provides a rich description of life on the streets, contextualizing criminal violence within this deviant subculture, and with a specific focus on issues of gender. The book provides one of the most detailed descriptions yet of the forms masculinity takes in disadvantages communities in the United States. It establishes how street based gender identity motivated and guided men through violent encounters, exploring how men's relationships with women and their families instigated violence. One key issue addressed is why men resorted to violence in certain situations and not in others, exploring the range of choices open to them and how these opportunities were interpreted. The book makes a major contribution to the study of the relationship between masculinities and violence, making use of a much larger sample than elsewhere

Square (algebra) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Mathematics · Sex work and related issues · City and town life · Criminal behavior · Criminology · Masculinity · Men · Missouri · Social conditions · Subculture · Violent crimes

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