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Book Review: When Men Kill: Scenarios of Masculine Violence

Book Review: When Men Kill: Scenarios of Masculine Violence Book Reviews When Men Kill: Scenarios of Masculine Violence, Kenneth Polk, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, (1994) 222 pp. This book is a significant contribution to the study of gender, crime, and violence. Homicide in Victoria, Australia, as in most jurisdictions around the world, is quintessentially masculine. Kenneth Polk's careful analysis of homicide records in Victoria reveals the patterns and dynamics of lethal violence which occurred between 1985 and 1989. His meticulous account raised profound questions about how criminology so often typifies killing, obscuring the very details Polk weaves into explorations of mostly men's lethal encounters, with each other and with women. Using files from the Office of the Coroner, Polk's task is to review the scenarios, and, if possible, the offenders' accounts, for each killing. Guided by the work of Daly and Wilson's Homicide (1988), Polk seeks to expand our knowledge of contemporary homicide through an understanding of how males in particular use violence as a device for control of women, for competition, for status and honour among men, and for resolving various conflicts. Four major classifications of lethal violence are reviewed, with an additional category of special cases which do not fit into such general descriptions. The first, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1995
ISSN
0004-8658
eISSN
1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/000486589502800305
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Book Reviews When Men Kill: Scenarios of Masculine Violence, Kenneth Polk, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, (1994) 222 pp. This book is a significant contribution to the study of gender, crime, and violence. Homicide in Victoria, Australia, as in most jurisdictions around the world, is quintessentially masculine. Kenneth Polk's careful analysis of homicide records in Victoria reveals the patterns and dynamics of lethal violence which occurred between 1985 and 1989. His meticulous account raised profound questions about how criminology so often typifies killing, obscuring the very details Polk weaves into explorations of mostly men's lethal encounters, with each other and with women. Using files from the Office of the Coroner, Polk's task is to review the scenarios, and, if possible, the offenders' accounts, for each killing. Guided by the work of Daly and Wilson's Homicide (1988), Polk seeks to expand our knowledge of contemporary homicide through an understanding of how males in particular use violence as a device for control of women, for competition, for status and honour among men, and for resolving various conflicts. Four major classifications of lethal violence are reviewed, with an additional category of special cases which do not fit into such general descriptions. The first,

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Dec 1, 1995

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