La Representación de Elementos Históricamente Asociados con los Dominios Masculinos y Femeninos de los Estilos de vida de los Chicos y Hombres Metrosexuales

Differing presentations of masculinity exist that appear to differentially embody elements historically associated with masculine and feminine domains. Metrosexuality, for instance, has been associated with more feminine characteristics and lifestyle choices (Simpson, 1994a) while laddist masculinity was presumed to be more traditionally masculine given its focus on bachelorhood and hedonistic consumption. The present research investigated representations of stereotypical or hyper-masculine (sports, strength, cars) and stereotypical or hyper-feminine (fashion, beauty, dieting) content in a metrosexual and laddist men’s lifestyle magazine. Qualitative and quantitative analyses suggest that the magazines differed in the amount of hyper-masculine material related to sports and strength, but not cars, with laddist magazines portraying this information more than metrosexual magazines. In terms of stereotypical or hyper-feminine material, both laddist and metrosexual magazines depicted fashion frequently, but the metrosexual magazines did portray this information significantly more often. The magazines did not differ in the frequency of portrayals of beauty or dieting; however they did differ in how they portrayed these topics. Implications for masculinities are discussed.Existen diferentes manifestaciones de la masculinidad que incorporan elementos históricos asociados con los dominios masculinos y femeninos. La metrosexualidad, por ejemplo, se ha asociado con características y estilos de vida más femeninos (Simpson, 1994a), mientras que la masculinidad juvenil es tradicionalmente más masculina porque se centra en la soltería y el consumo hedonista. El presente artículo estudia las representaciones estereotipadas de contenido híper-masculino (deportes, fuerza, automóviles) o híper-femenino (moda, belleza, dietas) en revistas centrada en los estilos de vida metrosexual y de hombres jóvenes. Los análisis cualitativos y cuantitativos sugieren que las revistas difieren en la cantidad de material híper-masculino relacionado con el deporte y la fuerza, pero no con la relacionada con los coches. En las revistas juveniles esta información está más reflejada que en las de orientación metrosexual. En términos del material estereotipado o híper-femenino, las revistas juveniles y metrosexuales reflejan la moda metrosexual con menor frecuencia que las revistas de carácter metrosexual. Las revistas no se diferencian en la frecuencia que representan la belleza o las dietas, sin embargo sí que lo hacen en como retratan estos aspectos. El artículo plantea la relación de todo ello con las masculinidades

Youth responses to the surveillance school: The bifurcation of antagonism and confidence in surveillance among teenaged students

The recent rise of so-called ‘surveillance schools’ is often justified given the need to engender a safe and secure educational environment for students; a fusion of pedagogical and security motives. This paper contributes knowledge regarding the attitudes and lived experiences of teenagers in response to school-based surveillance. Focus groups centre discussions on two areas: the effectiveness of policies regarding technology in the classroom as well as school-wide restrictions on Wi-Fi access, and the effectiveness of surveillance technologies geared to actively monitor student online activities. We explore a bifurcation of attitudes revealing both resistance to surveillance school practices as well as strong support for monitoring technologies perceived to be effective in addressing cyber-risks such as cyberbullying. Our findings point to the need for empirically assessing contexts where support or antagonism towards surveillance occurs, suggesting neither isomorphic resistance nor wholescale acquiescence.Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Insight Development Gran

La Representación de Elementos Históricamente Asociados con los Dominios Masculinos y Femeninos de los Estilos de vida de los Chicos y Hombres Metrosexuales

Differing presentations of masculinity exist that appear to differentially embody elements historically associated with masculine and feminine domains. Metrosexuality, for instance, has been associated with more feminine characteristics and lifestyle choices (Simpson, 1994a) while laddist masculinity was presumed to be more traditionally masculine given its focus on bachelorhood and hedonistic consumption. The present research investigated representations of stereotypical or hyper-masculine (sports, strength, cars) and stereotypical or hyper-feminine (fashion, beauty, dieting) content in a metrosexual and laddist men’s lifestyle magazine. Qualitative and quantitative analyses suggest that the magazines differed in the amount of hyper-masculine material related to sports and strength, but not cars, with laddist magazines portraying this information more than metrosexual magazines. In terms of stereotypical or hyper-feminine material, both laddist and metrosexual magazines depicted fashion frequently, but the metrosexual magazines did portray this information significantly more often. The magazines did not differ in the frequency of portrayals of beauty or dieting; however they did differ in how they portrayed these topics. Implications for masculinities are discussed.Existen diferentes manifestaciones de la masculinidad que incorporan elementos históricos asociados con los dominios masculinos y femeninos. La metrosexualidad, por ejemplo, se ha asociado con características y estilos de vida más femeninos (Simpson, 1994a), mientras que la masculinidad juvenil es tradicionalmente más masculina porque se centra en la soltería y el consumo hedonista. El presente artículo estudia las representaciones estereotipadas de contenido híper-masculino (deportes, fuerza, automóviles) o híper-femenino (moda, belleza, dietas) en revistas centrada en los estilos de vida metrosexual y de hombres jóvenes. Los análisis cualitativos y cuantitativos sugieren que las revistas difieren en la cantidad de material híper-masculino relacionado con el deporte y la fuerza, pero no con la relacionada con los coches. En las revistas juveniles esta información está más reflejada que en las de orientación metrosexual. En términos del material estereotipado o híper-femenino, las revistas juveniles y metrosexuales reflejan la moda metrosexual con menor frecuencia que las revistas de carácter metrosexual. Las revistas no se diferencian en la frecuencia que representan la belleza o las dietas, sin embargo sí que lo hacen en como retratan estos aspectos. El artículo plantea la relación de todo ello con las masculinidades

The Portrayal of Elements Historically Associated with Masculine and Feminine Domains in Lad and Metrosexual Men's Lifestyle Magazines.

Differing presentations of masculinity exist that appear to differentially embody elements historically associated with masculine and feminine domains. Metrosexuality, for instance, has been associated with more feminine characteristics and lifestyle choices (Simpson, 1 994a) while laddist masculinity was presumed to be more traditionally masculine given its focus on bachelorhood and hedonistic consumption. The present research investigated representations of stereotypical or hyper-masculine (sports, strength, cars) and stereotypical or hyper-feminine (fashion, beauty, dieting) content in a metrosexual and laddist men�s lifestyle magazine. Qualitative and quantitative analyses suggest that the magazines differed in the amount of hyper-masculine material related to sports and strength, but not cars, with laddist magazines portraying this information more than metrosexual magazines. In terms of stereotypical or hyper-feminine material, both laddist and metrosexual magazines depicted fashion frequently, but the metrosexual magazines did portray this information significantly more often. The magazines did not differ in the frequency of portrayals of beauty or dieting; however they did differ in how they portrayed these topics. Implications for masculinities are discussed.Existen diferentes manifestaciones de la masculinidad que incorporan elementos históricos asociados con los dominios masculinos y femeninos. La metrosexualidad, por ejemplo, se ha asociado con características y estilos de vida más femeninos (Simpson, 1 994a), mientras que la masculinidad juvenil es tradicionalmente más masculina porque se centra en la soltería y el consumo hedonista. El presente artículo estudia las representaciones estereotipadas de contenido híper-masculino (deportes, fuerza, automóviles) o híper-femenino (moda, belleza, dietas) en revistas centrada en los estilos de vida metrosexual y de hombres jóvenes. Los análisis cualitativos y cuantitativos sugieren que las revistas difieren en la cantidad de material híper-masculino relacionado con el deporte y la fuerza, pero no con la relacionada con los coches. En las revistas juveniles esta información está más reflejada que en las de orientación metrosexual. En términos del material estereotipado o híper-femenino, las revistas juveniles y metrosexuales reflejan la moda metrosexual con menor frecuencia que las revistas de carácter metrosexual. Las revistas no se diferencian en la frecuencia que representan la belleza o las dietas, sin embargo sí que lo hacen en como retratan estos aspectos. El artículo plantea la relación de todo ello con las masculinidades

‘They’re a very sick group of individuals’: Correctional officers, emotions, and sex offenders

In this article, we analyze the politics of emotions within the occupational culture of correctional officers by focusing attention on how sex offenders are constituted as objects of fear and disgust. We draw on in-depth semi-structured interviews with 100 Canadian men and women with experience working as correctional officers in provincial prisons (e.g. New Brunswick, Ontario, Alberta, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island) to understand how sex offenders are viewed within their occupational culture. Utilizing an interpretive hermeneutic approach, this article analyzes Canadian correctional officers’ interpretations of sex offenders. We show the effects of sex offenders’ construction as objects of fear and disgust, in terms of their identities and positionality in the general prison population, and the level of protection and services they receive while in prison

Predicting the role of assistive technologies in the lives of people with dementia using objective care recipient factors

Abstract Background The population of people with dementia is not homogeneous. People with dementia exhibit a wide range of needs, each characterized by diverse factors including age, sex, ethnicity, and place of residence. These needs and characterizing factors may influence the applicability, and ultimately the acceptance, of assistive technologies developed to support the independence of people with dementia. Accordingly, predicting the needs of users before developing the technologies may increase the applicability and acceptance of assistive technologies. Current methods of prediction rely on the difficult collection of subjective, potentially invasive information. We propose a method of prediction that uses objective, unobtrusive, easy to collect information to help inform the development of assistive technologies. Methods We develop a set of models that can predict the level of independence of people with dementia during 20 activities of daily living using simple, objective information. Using data collected from a Canadian survey conducted with caregivers of people with dementia, we create an ordered logistic regression model for each of the twenty daily tasks in the Bristol ADL scale. Results Data collected from 430 Canadian caregivers of people with dementia were analyzed to reveal: most care recipients were mothers or husbands, married, living in private housing with their caregivers, English-speaking, Canadian born, clinically diagnosed with dementia 1 to 6 years prior to the study, and were dependent on their caregiver. Next, we developed models that use 13 factors to predict a person with dementia’s ability to complete the 20 Bristol activities of daily living independently. The 13 factors include caregiver relation, age, marital status, place of residence, language, housing type, proximity to caregiver, service use, informal primary caregiver, diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, time since diagnosis, and level of dependence on caregiver. The resulting models predicted the aggregate level of independence correctly for 88 of 100 total responses categories, marginally for nine, and incorrectly for three. Conclusions Objective, easy to collect information can predict caregiver-reported level of task independence for a person with dementia. Knowledge of task independence can then inform the development of assistive technologies for people with dementia, improving their applicability and acceptance

Violence, Sex Offenders, and Corrections

Sex offenders remain the most hated group of offenders, subject to a myriad of regulations and punishments beyond imprisonment, including sex offender registries, chemical and surgical castration, and global positioning electronic monitoring systems. While aspects of their experiences of imprisonment are documented, less is known about how sex offenders experience prison and community corrections spaces - and the implications of their status on their treatment and safety in such environments. Violence, Sex Offenders, and Corrections critically assesses what is meant by the term 'sex offender', and acknowledges that such meanings are socially constructed, situated, and contingent. The book explores the person, crime, penal space, sexual orientation, legislation, and the community experiences of labelled sex offenders as well as the experiences of correctional officers working with said custodial populations. Ricciardelli and Spencer use conceptions of gender and embodiment to analyze how sex offenders are constituted as objects of fear and disgust and as deserving subjects of abjection and violence

“I Think It’s Re-Victimizing Victims Almost Every Time”: Police Perceptions of Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Violence

Criminal justice responses to sexual violence have long been critiqued for either failing or further victimizing complainants. The ways that police can be complicit in these shortcomings is well documented, but less is known about how police officers themselves identify and understand the barriers to justice within the criminal justice system. In this article, we use data from 70 semi-structured interviews and two focus groups with sex crime investigators to explore police interpretations of the obstacles to achieving justice in cases of sexual violence. Our findings demonstrate that the majority of officers are critical of the present criminal justice response to sexual violence and are doubtful of its ability to provide a semblance of justice to the majority of victims

From knowledge to action? The Youth Criminal Justice Act and use of extrajudicial measures in youth policing

Since its implementation, several studies have asserted that the Youth Criminal Justice Act [YCJA] (2003) has been successful in lessening the number of Canadian youth sent to court and later incarcerated. However, earlier work has not addressed the limitations of the YCJA in provinces where its provisions have only been partially implemented due to limited resources. Analyses of quantitative data derived from a survey of police officers in an Atlantic province reveals that knowledge of the YCJA and YCJA procedures is a poor predictor of officers’ likelihood to use extrajudicial (diversion) measures. Analysis of the open-ended portion of our survey, however, provides an explanation: the Act has not been fully implemented here because of resource limitations, which affect an officer’s ability to adhere to the YCJA