Criminal justice handbook on masculinity, male aggression, and sexuality /

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Author / Creator:Cusack, Carmen M.
Imprint:Springfield, Illinois : Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd., [2015]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11240718
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ISBN:9780398081478
0398081476
0398081468
9780398081461
9780398081461
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
English.
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Summary:Criminal Justice Handbook on Masculinity, Male Aggression, and Sexuality discusses masculinity as a social construct, an ideal, and an impediment for males and females. The book explores how the law equalizes, protects, bridles, and enforces masculinity while dealing with crime, which often exploits and exaggerates masculinity. Among the topics addressed are historical and contemporary law, scientific understandings, issues in corrections, military service, the court system, policing, criminal procedure, medicine, and treatment. Because masculinity is often exhibited as a gender role, the book.
Other form:Print version: Cusack, Carmen M. Criminal justice handbook on masculinity, male aggression, and sexuality. Springfield, Illinois : Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd., [2015] 9780398081461