ABSTRACT
In the history of theoretical criminology, two luminaries are significant: Edwin Sutherland and Albert Cohen, because they placed masculinity on the criminological agenda. These two sociological criminologists were among the first to perceive the theoretical importance of the gendered nature of crime. Yet Sutherland and Cohen understood gender through a biologically based sex-role theory, the weaknesses of which are now well understood: It provides no grasp of gendered power, human agency, and the varieties of masculinities and femininities constructed historically, cross-culturally, in a given society, and throughout the life course. Following the work of feminist ethnomethodologists, this perspective argues that gender is a situated social and interactional accomplishment that grows out of social practices in specific settings and serves to inform such practices in reciprocal relation-we coordinate our activities to "do" gender in situational ways.
