James W. Messerschmidt

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 (5th edition), with Piers Beirne (Oxford University Press, 2010), Nine Lives: Adolescent Masculinities, the Body, and Violence (2000, Westview Press) and Flesh and Blood: Adolescent Gender Diversity and Violence, (2004, Rowman and Littlefield).