JAMES W. MESSERSCHMIDT received his Ph.D. from the Criminology Institute in the Department of Sociology at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He teaches White-Collar Crime, Gender and Crime, and Political Crime. His research interests focus on the interrelation of gender, race, class, and crime. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he is the author of The Trial of Leonard Peltier (South End Press, 1983), Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Crime: Toward a Socialist Feminist Criminology (Rowman & Littlefield, 1986), Masculinities and Crime: Critique and Reconceptualization of Theory (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993), Crime as Structured Action: Gender, Race, Class, and Crime in the Making (Sage, 1997),  Criminology (4th edition), with Piers Beirne (Roxbury, 2005),  Nine Lives: Adolescent Masculinities, the Body, and Violence (2000, Westview Press) and Flesh and Blood: Adolescent Gender Diversity and Violence, (2004, Rowman and Littlefield).

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RECENT BOOKS
Criminology, 4th Edition (Roxbury, 2005)
Flesh & Blood: Adolescent Gender Diversity and Violence (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004)
Nine Lives: Adolescent Masculinities, the Body, and Violence (Westview Press, 2000)
Crime as Structured Action: Gender, Race, Class, and Crime in the Making (Sage, 1997)

RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS
And Now, The Rest of the Story...
Doing Gender
Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept
Masculinities and Crime: Beyond a Dualist Criminology
"We Must Protect Our Southern Women": On Whiteness, Masculinities, and Lynching
Goodbye to the Sex-Gender Distinction, Hello to Embodied Gender: On Masculinities, Bodies, and Violence
The Forgotten Victims of WWII: Masculinities and Rape in Berlin, 1945

COURSES
White-Collar Crime: Fall 2007
Gender Representation and Resistance: Fall 2007
Intro. to Women's Studies: Spring 2008
Gender and Crime: Spring 2008