Sex, Violence and Crime

Name: Sex, Violence and Crime
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

What happens when you sex violent crimes? More specifically, what happens when you make men\u2019s violence against women the subject of a conversation or the focus of scholarly attention? The short answer is: all hell breaks loose. Adrian Howe explores some of the ways in which this persistent and pervasive form of violence has been named and unnamed as a significant social problem in western countries over the past four decades. Addressing what she calls the \u2018Man\u2019 question-so named because it pays attention to the discursive place occupied, or more usually vacated, by men in accounts of their violence against women-she explores what happens when that violence is placed on the criminological and political agenda.