Criminology - Dekeseredy & Schwartz
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- Created on: 02-05-15 21:24
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- Dekeseredy & Schwartz, 2013/15, "Male Peer Support Theory"
- absence of deterrence
- rejects biological/ psychological/ physiological reasons
- too wide spread
- men are natural dominant and aggressive and women are subordinate
- men expect loyalty, sexual fidelity and obedience
- men encounter situations where women don't aquire to their wishes
- declining sexual advances or challenging them
- insults masculinity and respond violently
- mens victimisation of women is a social product
- women violate norms is seen as injust
- provokes violence but illegal so why do it?
- peers/ friends/ family
- provokes violence but illegal so why do it?
- violence against women affirms sense of being a man
- males sexually objectifiy women
- reduced to attraction
- group secrecy - thwarts investigation
- others think it is acceptable
- men encourage men - don't condemn it but approve of it
- violence is a result of negative relationships
- stress felt more deeply by men
- interactions between men and women
- fraternities - exaggerations of sexual conquests
- "real men" have sex on demand
- male peer groups socialised into masculinity
- alcohol is an excuse for bad behaviour or makes women vulnerable
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