TY - BOOK AU - Messerschmidt,James W. TI - Crime as structured action: gender, race, class, and crime in the making SN - 0761907173 : U1 - 364.042 21 PY - 1997/// CY - London PB - SAGE KW - Criminology KW - Social aspects N1 - Includes bibliography (p. 121-129) and index; Prologue - Lynchers - Hustler - Bad girls - Murderous managers N2 - Messerschmidt uses four case studies to illustrate his theories of criminology. These are: black-white relationships in the American South between 1865 and 1900, the life of Malcolm X, violence in black girl gangs, and finally the disaster of the Challenger space shuttle ER -