Masculinities and Crime: Critique and Reconceptualization of Theory

. . . compactly presented and even more cogently argued . . . deserves the largest audience, if only because of the importance of the debate it is sure to generate . . . Messerschmidt is to be commended for humanizing the study of criminality and demonstrating its complex link to gender construction in contemporary society. ― The Criminologist

His critique of deficiencies in criminological and sex-role theories is excellent, and I commend it as an accessible introduction to the issues. — Kathleen Daly ― American Journal of Sociology

Masculinities and Crime is an important step in the continuing development of criminological theory . . . addressing the fact that crime is, if nothing else, primarily the province of men. — Susan L. Caulfield, Western Michigan University

This is, as Connell rightly points out in his foreword, a book written with ‘imagination and passion’ . . . It . . . pulls together a lot of apparently disconnected fragments of knowledge with . . . felicity . . . As well as being a very good book, it is also probably the first attempt to rethink criminology in the light of the new work on men and masculinities . . . — Tony Jefferson ― British Journal of Criminology