Friedman economic policies, social exclusion, and crime: toward a gendered left realist subcultural theory

Left realists contend that people lacking legitimate means of solving the problem of relative deprivation may come into contact with other frustrated disenfranchised people and form subcultures, which in turn, encourage criminal behaviors. Absent from this theory is an attempt to address how, today,...

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1. VerfasserIn: DeKeseredy, Walter S. 1959- (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Schwartz, Martin D. 1945- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2010
In: Crime, law and social change
Jahr: 2010, Band: 54, Heft: 2, Seiten: 159-170
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Hegemonic Masculinity
Progressive Scholar
Public Housing
Relative Deprivation
Woman Abuse
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Zusammenfassung:Left realists contend that people lacking legitimate means of solving the problem of relative deprivation may come into contact with other frustrated disenfranchised people and form subcultures, which in turn, encourage criminal behaviors. Absent from this theory is an attempt to address how, today, subcultural development in North America and elsewhere is heavily shaped simultaneously by the recent destructive consequences of right-wing Friedman or Chicago School economic policies and marginalized men’s attempts to live up to the principles of hegemonic masculinity. The purpose of this paper, then, is to offer a new left realist theory that emphasizes the contribution of these two key determinants.
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 167-170
ISSN:1573-0751
DOI:10.1007/s10611-010-9251-8