Masculinity, Rurality And Violence

Carrington, Kerry; Scott, John

doi:10.1093/bjc/azn031

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“…Rural Australia tends to be less diverse and tolerant of sexual difference with greater likelihood of overt and conspicuous discrimination. Moreover rural men have a limited range of acceptable masculinities which emphasise heteronormativity and physicality (Carrington & Scott, 2008). As a church charity worker remarked:…”

Section: Farmers' Wives Stay and Put Up With [Domestic Violence]; Hopmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For many Australian men (as in other countries as well), what they do -their skill or profession -is crucial to defining who they are, and their positioning in the field of masculinity (Carrington & Scott, 2008;Cole, 2009). Rural culture centred on farming places a high value on productive activity and physicality in particular.…”

Section: Farming Men Identity and Continuitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our research team set out to explore why (non-Indigenous) men living in regional and remote areas of Australia experience higher mortality and morbidity rates related to violence than men living in the nation's major cities (Carrington, McIntosh & Scott, 2010;Carrington & Scott, 2008). We used a mixed methods approach triangulating secondary quantitative data with primary qualitative data.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Rural Masculinities and the Internalisation of Violence in Agricultural Communities

Carrington¹,

McIntosh²,

Hogg³

et al. 2014

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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This article is based on research we conducted in two agricultural communities as part of a broader study that included mining communities in rural Australia. The data from the agricultural locations tell a different story to that of the mining communities. In the latter, alcohol-fuelled, male-on-male assaults in public places caused considerable anxiety among informants. By contrast, people in the agricultural communities seemed more troubled by hidden violent harms which were largely privatised and individualised, including self-harm, suicide, isolation and threats to men's general wellbeing and mental health; domestic violence; and other forms of violence largely unreported and thus unacknowledged within the wider community (including sexual assault and bullying linked to homophobia). We argue one reason for the different pattern in the agricultural communities is the decline of pub(lic) masculinity, and with this, the increasing isolation of rural men and the increasing propensity to internalise violence. We argue that the relatively high rates of suicide in agricultural communities experiencing rural decline are symptomatic of the internalisation of violence.

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Section: Farmers' Wives Stay and Put Up With [Domestic Violence]; Hopmentioning

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Section: Farming Men Identity and Continuitymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Rural Masculinities and the Internalisation of Violence in Agricultural Communities

Carrington¹,

McIntosh²,

Hogg³

et al. 2014

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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“…It is, in fact, expected that, given the distinct ecological and cultural environments of these areas, the effects of gender and setting on drug activity and criminal involvement among them will vary from more urban places. In particular, it is thought that community norms about gender roles, especially those supportive of rural patriarchy and stereotypical gender stereotypes (Bouffard & Muftíc, 2006;Campbell & Bell, 2000;DeKeseredy, Donnermeyer, Schwartz, Tunnell, & Hall, 2007;Carrington & Scott, 2008: DeKeseredy & Schwartz, 2009Gallup-Black, 2005;Johnson, 1999;Websdale,1998), along with the unique opportunities for crime and drug use in these fringe areas, should influence not just the incidence of criminal behavior, but its nature and meaning as well.…”

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“…These researchers, and others, also note how the nature of rural interpersonal relationships and the norms governing them-where one is very conscious of publicly airing dirty laundry --can also exert a chilling effect on those seeking help for domestic violence. And, several, like Carrington and Scott (2008), have argued that the destabilization of the architecture of rural life has challenged rural / masculine discourses leading rural men, so challenged, to resort to violence as a largely strategic practice deployed to recreate an imagined rural gender order.…”

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Women and Crime in the Rural-Urban Fringe

Rockell¹

2014

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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This article focuses on human actors and a spatial setting which are rarely the subject of criminological inquiry. Both the actors (drug-involved low-level female offenders) and the setting in which they reside (the rural-urban fringe) have been relegated to some nether world of criminal justice scholarship: they are considered neither significant nor consequential enough to warrant scientific interest, and when they do enter the scholarly picture it is often in a caricaturelike way. Indeed, the women of interest here, drug-involved recidivist property and public order offenders, often have been reduced in the media to drug-addled, crystal-meth scarred beings with minimal voice, little context, and even less meaning, inhabiting a world that is defined simply for what it is not -neither urban, nor rural. The research took place in four upstate New York counties, with data collected by way of intensive, qualitative interviews from four sources: the Sheriffs in each county, other law enforcement personnel (including members of the road patrol and drug task forces for the county), jail staff, and 20 women being held in local county jails who met the selection criteria. In framing the inquiry, emphasis was placed on exploring the effects of the rural-urban fringe setting on the women's entry into drug / criminal activity and the roles played by community institutions, arrangements, and opportunity structures to facilitate their involvement in these pursuits.

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Attitudinal support for violence against women: What a population‐level survey of the Australian community can and cannot tell us

Webster

Ward²,

Diemer

et al. 2018

Aust J Social Issues

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Violence against women (VAW) is a serious and prevalent problem globally. Societal-level norms, practices and structures are among the factors contributing to it, sometimes referred to collectively as representing "cultures of support" for VAW. Understanding factors contributing to these cultures is important for prevention, but remains the subject of debate. Population-level surveys of attitudes toward VAW are one means to strengthen this understanding.Although there are a number of such surveys internationally, scholarly research based on secondary analysis of data, at least from surveys in high-income countries, is scant. This article reports on new analyses of the Australian National Community Attitudes Towards Violence AgainstWomen survey to explore its potential to further empirical and conceptual understanding of cultures of support for VAW. To facilitate this, a scale to measure attitudes toward VAW was developed post hoc from the survey (the Violence Supportive Attitudes, or VSA-18, Scale). Subsequent analyses investigate the relationship between this scale and relevant demographic factors and a measure of attitudinal support for gender equality (GE). The GE measure, place of birth, employment and occupation, generation, education and sex contribute to variance in the VSA-18 Scale. Findings are discussed in the context of theoretical debates and directions for future research.

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Masculinity, Rurality And Violence

Cited by 70 publications

References 19 publications

Rural Masculinities and the Internalisation of Violence in Agricultural Communities

Rural Masculinities and the Internalisation of Violence in Agricultural Communities

Women and Crime in the Rural-Urban Fringe

Attitudinal support for violence against women: What a population‐level survey of the Australian community can and cannot tell us

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