TY - BOOK
T1 - Masculinity and Public Drinking Violence: A Research Report to NSW Health and NSW Attorney General's Crime Prevention Division on Violence, Young Male Drinkers and Private Security
AU - Tomsen, Stephen A.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This research on public drinking-related conflict and violence has studied the views and experience of security officers and young male drinkers in the Newcastle/Hunter areas of New South Wales, Australia. These participants were recruited non-randomly into different focus groups, and information was generated to allow a fuller depth of understanding of drinking violence from a social actor perspective. Results suggest that despite evidence of ongoing “binge drinking” most young men are seriously concerned about their own safety when they are at or near drinking venues and they take measures to avoid trouble and protect themselves during this leisure activity. These drinkers also hold contradictory views about venue security. Material from these focus groups suggests that the link between drinking, violence and masculinity shapes the pattern of many conflicts. This can be understood by both drinkers and security in a way that naturalises male violence, denies personal agency and leads to undue pessimism about measures to create safer drinking environments. The link with masculinity is dynamic and varies according to the different types of individual and collectively generated “masculinities” that predominate in different social contexts, especially those involving various perceptions about social honour and whether or not to respond to public insults.
AB - This research on public drinking-related conflict and violence has studied the views and experience of security officers and young male drinkers in the Newcastle/Hunter areas of New South Wales, Australia. These participants were recruited non-randomly into different focus groups, and information was generated to allow a fuller depth of understanding of drinking violence from a social actor perspective. Results suggest that despite evidence of ongoing “binge drinking” most young men are seriously concerned about their own safety when they are at or near drinking venues and they take measures to avoid trouble and protect themselves during this leisure activity. These drinkers also hold contradictory views about venue security. Material from these focus groups suggests that the link between drinking, violence and masculinity shapes the pattern of many conflicts. This can be understood by both drinkers and security in a way that naturalises male violence, denies personal agency and leads to undue pessimism about measures to create safer drinking environments. The link with masculinity is dynamic and varies according to the different types of individual and collectively generated “masculinities” that predominate in different social contexts, especially those involving various perceptions about social honour and whether or not to respond to public insults.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:67189
U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.4046521
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.4046521
M3 - Research report
BT - Masculinity and Public Drinking Violence: A Research Report to NSW Health and NSW Attorney General's Crime Prevention Division on Violence, Young Male Drinkers and Private Security
PB - Unknown
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