ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the content of press discourse constructions of the 'spree killing' and, in particular, representations of the gunman Thomas Hamilton in the aftermath of the Dunblane massacre. It deals with what has been 'seen' and 'unseen' within a range of 'criminolegal' constructions of the men/crime relationship. The chapter defines the genealogy of this silencing of the sexed specificity of the Dunblane massacre. In investigating the gender order of the signifying complex which surrounds the phenomenon of the spree killing this article is, ultimately, about Thomas Hamilton, not as a 'monster', 'pervert' or personification of 'evil', but as a man. To re-configure the relationship between masculinities and crime leads, ultimately, to a transformation in how crime is imagined. It leads to a set of different questions and issues which ill-fit the traditional formulations of liberal political and crimino-legal thought.
