From the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. Feminists have researched extensively on all types associated with gender, including gay and lesbian, thus acting towards the literature on masculinity slowly increasing within the past 20 years due to the pressure from feminist works. In this essay, I will begin by reviewing theories on masculinity, and evaluating why such ideas create the assumption that violence appears to be associated with masculinity. I ...

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Classical approaches to organizational management and early organizational theories were designed to  predict  and  control  behavior in organizations. Max Weber (1864-1920) developed an ideal type or pure form of bureaucracy (Weber, 1992) as a formal system of organization and administration that would reflect the most characteristic aspects of all human organizations. Luther Gulick (1892-1993) is the one who expanded on the works of Max Weber to build a foundation for structuring the organization (Gulick, 1936). Both of them are the major contributors to the classical organiza...

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The purpose of this essay is to look at how the media is a source of 'knowledge' to present crime and victimisation and how the media invokes 'moral panics' about crime and lawless behaviour. There are a number of individuals who think when a person commits a crime they are punished for that crime. However, there is more to crime than just punishment. The media plays an important role in the construction of crime and lawless behaviour. Society's perception of victims, criminals, deviants and punishment is influenced by their portrayal in the mass media. ...

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