James W. Messerschmidt
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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, sexuality and crime.
Recent Publications
Forthcoming Publications:
Crime as Structured Action: Doing Masculinity, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Crime. Second Edition. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, August 2013).
Books:
Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence: The Struggle for Recognition (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012).
Hegemonic Masculinities and Camouflaged Politics: Unmasking the Bush Dynasty and Its War Against Iraq. (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2010)
Criminology (with Piers Beirne), 5th Edition (NY: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Articles and Chapters:
"Hegemonic Masculinities and the "Selling" of War: Lessons from George W. Bush." Rethinking Transnational Men: Beyond, Between, and Within Nations, edited by Jeff Hearn, Marina Blagojevic and Katherine Harrison. (NY: Routledge, 2013).
"Engendering Gendered Knowledge: Assessing the Academic Appropriation of Hegemonic Masculinity," Men and Masculinities, 15(1) 2012: 56-76.
"The Struggle for Heterofeminine Recognition: Bullying, Embodiment, and Reactive Sexual Offending by Adolescent Girls." Feminist Criminology, 6(3) 2011: 203-233.
"Masculinities" (with Stephen Tomsen). In W. DeKeseredy and M. Dragiewicz, eds. Handbook of Critical Criminology. (NY: Routledge. 2011)
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