Home Department: Criminology

Education

Ph.D. from the Criminology Institute in the Department of Sociology at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.

Teaching/Research Interests

Research interests focus on the interrelation of gender, race, class and sexuality. 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 (Oxford University Press, 2006),  Nine Lives: Adolescent Masculinities, the Body, and Violence (2000, Westview Press) and Flesh and Blood: Adolescent Gender Diversity and Violence, (2004, Rowman and Littlefield).

Current research includes: 1) the development of a theoretical framework for conceptualizing the victim-bully cycle of bullying, 2) an examination of the problems associated with the sex-gender distinction in feminist theory, 3) participation in two forthcoming sociology journal symposia on the concepts of "hegemonic masculinity" and "doing gender," and 4) a life-history study of people who identify as "transgender."

Courses Taught

Gender Representation and Resistance (EYE 109I)
Intro. to Women's Studies (WST 135I)
Gender and Crime (CRM 317)

Recent Publications

Books

Criminology, 4th Edition (Oxford University Press, 2006)
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)

Papers/Articles

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