{"id":189,"date":"2007-01-10T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/01\/10\/wanna-get-tased\/"},"modified":"2007-01-10T23:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T05:42:00","slug":"wanna-get-tased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/01\/10\/wanna-get-tased\/","title":{"rendered":"wanna get tased?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/217-c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018646830388574546\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/218-c.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>have you caught the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,242531,00.html\">recent press<\/a> regarding the <em>taser c2, <\/em>the new consumer taser that comes in pink? i supervised a graduate research partnership with jesse wozniak this summer, in which he attended a taser convention in las vegas and wrote an <em>electrifying <\/em>paper on policing, masculinity, and tasers.<\/p>\n<p>mr. wozniak will be presenting the shocking results (<em>sorry woz, couldn&#8217;t resist)<\/em> at our department workshop this tuesday at 4 in 1114 social sciences. there is absolutely <em>no <\/em>truth to the rumor that his new advisor will be tased during the presentation. here&#8217;s the &#8216;stract:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Real Men Use Non-Lethals: Masculinity and the Framing of Police Weaponry<br \/><\/strong><br \/>This presentation centers on an examination of masculinity formation in the police subculture. Using first-hand ethnographic accounts of a major non-lethal weapons manufacturer&#8217;s annual sales and educational conference, I explore how the introduction of &#8220;less-masculine&#8221; weapons are marketed to coalesce with the hypermasculine police subculture. Connell&#8217;s (1995) theories of masculinity are tested to understand how such a tightly-defined subculture absorbs such challenges to its core values and re-imagines itself to keep those core values intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>have you caught the recent press regarding the taser c2, the new consumer taser that comes in pink? i supervised a graduate research partnership with jesse wozniak this summer, in which he attended a taser convention in las vegas and wrote an electrifying paper on policing, masculinity, and tasers. mr. wozniak will be presenting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}