Citation

Bourgois P. Br. J. Criminol. 1996; 36(3): 412-427.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Publisher Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted while residing next to a crack house in El Barrio, New York, for almost five years, this article analyses how the social and economic marginalization of second- and third-generation Puerto Rican immigrants in the inner city has polarized violence and sexuality against women and children both within the family and on the street. Traditional working-class patriarchy has been thrown into crisis by the restructuring of the global economy and the expansion of women's rights. Unable to replicate the rural-based models of masculinity and family structure of their grandfathers' generation, a growing cohort of marginalized men in the de-industrialized urban economy takes refuge in the drug economy and celebrates a misogynist, predatory street culture that normalizes gang rape, sexual conquest, and paternal abandonment. Marginalized men lash out against the women and children they can no longer support economically nor control patriarchally. (Abstract Adapted from Source: British Journal of Criminology, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press)

New York
Ethnographic Studies
Sociocultural Factors
Socioeconomic Factors
Immigrant Offender
Hispanic Offender
Hispanic Violence
Hispanic Male
Hispanic Adult
Adult Male
Adult Offender
Adult Violence
Sexual Assault Offender
Masculinity
Gender Role Ideology
Drug Trafficking
Urban Environment
Sexual Assault Causes
Violence Causes
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