@article{ref1,
title="Masculinities, Violence and Defended Psychosocial Subjects",
journal="Theoretical criminology",
year="2000",
author="Gadd, David",
volume="4",
number="4",
pages="429-449",
abstract="Against `structured action theory' and the `discourses of violence' approach this article argues for a psychoanalytic interpretive approach to reading violent men's accounts of their lives. Using material from a single case study the author challenges the idea that violence towards women is necessarily `masculinity accomplishing' and suggests how an approach which theorizes both the social and psychic can be deployed to address the issue of `change'. The strengths and limitations of positing a defended psychosocial subject in the research process are also discussed.<p />",
language="",
issn="1362-4806",
doi="10.1177/1362480600004004002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362480600004004002"
}