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Frederick, Brian J 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0653-5957
(2014)
“Delinquent Boys”: Toward a New Understanding of “Deviant” and Transgressive Behavior in Gay Men.
Critical Criminology, 22 (1).
pp. 139-149.
doi:10.1007/s10612-013-9230-3
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Abstract
Cultural criminology suggests that crime, deviance, and transgression are often subcultural in nature. For this reason, cultural criminologists often focus on the simultaneous forces of cultural inclusion and social exclusion when explaining criminal, deviant,or transgressive behaviors. This is a particularly useful bricolage for examining contemporary gay deviance and transgression—behaviors that are perhaps closely linked to (if not directly caused by) the past isolation, marginalization and/or oppression of homosexuals by Western heteronormative societies. It is also useful for understanding behaviors that are the result of marginalization and oppression from other sources, namely, the gay community itself. Using subcultural theories of deviance—such as those favored by cultural criminologists—this article explores a perspective that can be used for exploring certain forms of gay deviance and transgression. First, some of the more ostensible criminological theories that satisfy a prima facie criminological inquiry will be presented and critiqued: labeling and stigma, and resistance to heteronormativity. To these will be added a new and potentially productive way of thinking that takes into consideration rule-breaking as a form of resistance to homonormative norms, values and rules.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Article Type: | Article |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | lgbt issues, cultural criminology, deviance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology. |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences |
| Research Priority Areas: | Place, Environment and Community |
| Depositing User: | Brian Frederick |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Oct 2016 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2023 08:25 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/4105 |
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