Crime, Violence and Masculinities

Stephen Tomsen is Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. Previously, he held visiting professorships and fellowships in the United Kingdom (Birkbeck College, Keele University, and the University of Manchester); the University of Washington (UW/Seattle); Leiden University and the Netherlands Ministry of Justice (Den Haag). He was a member of the sociology group at Macquarie University in the 1980s, and then a pioneer in the development of nightlife ethnographies, queer criminology, and crime and masculinity studies – which all developed as new academic fields in the 1990s and 2000s. Stephen is especially known for research on violence, victims, gender, sexuality, drinking, and drug use, and the policing of social order. In 2018, he was awarded a life membership of Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras recognising more than forty years of social activism and contributions to the LGBT community.

• Introduction. Section 1: Drinking Violence and Night Leisure as a Masculine Domain. 1. A TOP NIGHT: Social Protest, Masculinity and the Culture of Drinking Violence. 2. ‘Boozers and Bouncers’: Masculine Conflict, Disengagement and the Contemporary Governance of Drinking-Related Violence and Disorder. 3. A dangerous proximity: The night-time economy and the city’s early morning. 4. Nightlife Ethnography, Violence, Policing and Security. Section 2: The Masculinity of Hate Crime and the Legal Response. 5. Engendering homophobia: violence, sexuality and gender conformity. 6. Hate Crimes and Masculine Offending. 7. Social and cultural meanings of legal responses to homicide among men: Masculine honour, sexual advances and accidents. 8. Victimhood, truth and criminal justice failure in relation to anti-homosexual violence and killings in New South Wales. Section 3: Violent Masculinities in Criminal Justice and Culture. 9. Ruling Men? Some Comments on Masculinity and Juvenile Justice. 10. Masculinities, Crime and Criminalisation. 11. Violence and Carceral Masculinities in Felony Fights. 12. Crime and Masculinity in Popular Culture. Section 4: Structure, Identity, and Practice. 13. Masculinities, structure and hegemony. 14. Masculinities and Interpersonal Violence. 15. Beyond Honour and Achieved Hegemony: Violence and the Everyday Masculinities of Young Men. 16. Masculinities and the Lived Understandings of Bystander Responses to Everyday Violence.

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