2013
DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12016
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Masculinities, Persistence, and Desistance

Abstract: In life‐course criminology, when gender has been the focus of study, it has predominantly been treated as a variable. Studies that explore the gendered nature of criminal careers through the lived experiences of offenders are rare, even though these studies can make important contributions to our understanding of crime and the life course. Analyzing qualitative data, this article uses life‐history narratives of a small sample of male juvenile delinquents (N = 25), born in 1969–1974, to explore the possible lin… Show more

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“…A first dimension of this support is instrumental and prevents individuals from perceiving strain: The relevance of social support to threats to desistance can also be confirmed if we examine failure cases (i.e., people who were in a desistance process at the first interview but who reoffended and were re-incarcerated during the follow-up period). In some cases, a lack of economic support and the need to provide money for the family in the context of the male breadwinner model and the criminogenic effects of masculinity (Carlsson, 2013) Finally, social support was relevant for explaining the maintenance of the desistance process in some middle-aged offenders in whom cognitive transformation was the catalyst for change. These offenders include participants who did not aspire to acquire conventional adult roles because of their age and their long drug abuse trajectory.…”
Section: Outcome Of the Desistance Process When Conventional Adult Romentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A first dimension of this support is instrumental and prevents individuals from perceiving strain: The relevance of social support to threats to desistance can also be confirmed if we examine failure cases (i.e., people who were in a desistance process at the first interview but who reoffended and were re-incarcerated during the follow-up period). In some cases, a lack of economic support and the need to provide money for the family in the context of the male breadwinner model and the criminogenic effects of masculinity (Carlsson, 2013) Finally, social support was relevant for explaining the maintenance of the desistance process in some middle-aged offenders in whom cognitive transformation was the catalyst for change. These offenders include participants who did not aspire to acquire conventional adult roles because of their age and their long drug abuse trajectory.…”
Section: Outcome Of the Desistance Process When Conventional Adult Romentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When people are young, they learn how to "do" gender by absorbing the social schemas that define masculinity and femininity (Carlsson 2013). Social schemas are representations of the patterns seen in past social interactions that guide people in their understanding of social cues during future interactions.…”
Section: Masculinitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The criminal aspect of "doing masculinity" is when a person takes the concepts they have learned about it and apply it in a deviant manner. It is not uncommon that the traits of domination and aggression-"doing masculinity"-cause some to equate sexual prowess with assault (Carlsson 2013). Media influence can either frame "doing masculinity" as acceptable or not, and in turn, shapes the public's perception of sexism, misogyny and sexual violence.…”
Section: Masculinitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although criminal men are devalued and demonized, criminality itself does not challenge social constructions of masculinity. In stark contrast to femininity and crime, there is no necessary conflict between "doing masculinity" and "doing crime" (Carlsson 2013). The Stockholm siege played out as a contest of force between representatives of the legitimate masculinity of state authority and the criminal masculinity of Olsson and Olofsson.…”
Section: Gendering Stockholm Syndromementioning
confidence: 99%
“…These representatives of authority and legitimate masculinity confirmed his transition to the conventional and mature masculinity signaled by marriage (cf. Carlsson 2013). In effect, the marriage can be read as a reversal of the hostage situation: it officially established Olsson's legitimate access to a woman's body.…”
Section: Gendering Stockholm Syndromementioning
confidence: 99%