Description: Fights, fraud and drugs racketeering regularly hit the headlines, but they are just news stories for most of us. For others, they constitute a way of life. This book uncovers a world where male identity is expressed each day through physical strength and power.
Brief description:
Simon Winlow is Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social Sciences and Law, University of Teeside.
Review Quotes:
"Simon Winlow has taken the study of contemporary urban violence to a new level of sophistication. His subtle examination of the emergence of violence as a marketable asset represents cultural criminology at its best." --Richard Wright, University of Missouri-St. Louis and U.S. National Consortium on Violence Research
"I can't think of any other sociologist in this country who has ever travelled quite so dangerous a road in search of a viable thesis as Simon Winlow ... This is qualitative sociology at its best: revealing, disturbing, counter-intuitive, and compelling." --Laurie Taylor, The Independent "Simon Winlow, in his pioneering ethnography of contemporary masculinities [does] what few qualitative researchers are willing or able to do ... This ethnography at the edge takes an unprecedented step in the right direction." --Qualitative Research