Topic > Essay on Masculinity and Crime - 1993

Men are classified as hegemonic, meaning that male masculinity depends on paid work, women, and men's uncontrollable sexuality. Middle-class youth demonstrate through their success some of the characteristics of hegemonic masculinity. The crimes shown by these categories occur outside of school through vandalism, petty theft and alcoholism. While working class white males don't do as well in school as middle class white males. Working class males are seen to build their masculinity around physical aggression and antisocial behaviour. Lower working class men from non-white groups such as ethnic minority groups have little expectation of educational success and secure and stable employment to assert their masculinity and most of the time seek to promote their masculinity by joining gangs local street traffic, thus more crimes due to men in such rural areas. areas. The lower working class will engage in robbery and serious property crimes. Even decent middle class men who are able to have a hegemonic lifestyle use crimes to express masculinity while success in education is not enough for them. White-collar and corporate crimes in facilities are not just ways for the individual to benefit from the organization he or she has to create