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Taylor & Francis Ltd Just Boys Doing Business? 1994 Edition by Tim Newburn, Elizabeth A Stanko
What is it about crime that makes it `men's work'? Can we imagine masculinity without crime? This is the first book of its kind to bring contributors from three continents together to examine the relationship between masculinity and crime. Covering such areas as policing, prisons, violence against women, homicide, white-collar crime, and male victimisation, this book will force us to rethink many aspects of masculinity and crime. The Problem of Jurisprudence, or Telling the Truth of Law; Origins; The Laws of Nature, Man's Power and God; Thomas Hobbes and the Origins of the Imperative Theory of Law; David Hume - Defender of Experience and Tradition against the Claims of Reason to Guide Modernity; Immanuel Kant and the Promotion of a Critical Rational Modernity; From Rousseau to Hegel; Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill; John Austin and the Misunderstood Birth of Legal Positivism; Karl Marx and the Marxist Heritage for Understanding Law and Society; Weber, Nietzsche and the Holocaust; The Pure Theory of Hans Kelsen; The High Point of Legal Positivism; Liberalism and the Idea of the Just Society in Late Modernity; Ronald Dworkin and the Struggle against Disenchantment; Scepticism, Suspicion and the Critical Legal Studies Movement; Understanding Feminist Jurisprudence; Concluding Remarks