Learning Objectives
- An overview of the involvement of men and boys in crime, disorder and antisocial behaviour.
- An account of the response of the criminal justice system to male offenders.
- An assessment of the reasons why boys and men are more likely to offend than girls and women.
- A summary of the main theoretical approaches developed to understand the relationship between masculinity and crime, including structural, psychosocial and discursive schools of thought.
- An analysis of the applicability of a human rights agenda in relation to men. It is argued that men may be beneficiaries of a rights-based agenda with reference to the over-policing of marginal men. By contrast it is suggested that the violent behaviours of men inhibit the human rights of their victims.