The book is testing the regular masculinist character of
criminological research, James W. Messerschmidt builds up an intricate
investigation of the gender orientation roles that, alongside class and race,
impact the event and kinds of violations in our general environment. It
contends that his utilization of the focal term `masculinities' is redundant
and that the contentions connecting manliness to wrongdoing are far fetched and
coherently defective.