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9 Crime Media Culture 3 (2013)

handle is hein.journals/cmctre9 and id is 1 raw text is: Article C Crime Media Culture 9(1)3-21 © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: The stories told about 'men' sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1741659012454124 in British newspaper coverage cmc.sagepub.com of the Raoul Moat case OSAGE Anthony Ellis, Jennifer Sloan and Maggie Wykes University of Sheffield, UK Abstract This article addresses the common omission and/or obfuscation of men in accounts of crime and particularly accounts of violence, despite the overwhelming presence of men in violent activities and, indeed, crime per se. In doing so it identifies key themes that frame masculine identities. Using the case of Raoul Moat, the piece analyses the discourses available in British newspapers to account for male violence. Raoul Moat killed one man, injured his ex-partner and a police officer and finally shot himself dead in the Northumbrian wilderness. Whereas most accounts of male violence blame 'bad' women, race, youth, terror, gangs and madness, here news stories evoked different tales of domestic, institutional and elemental masculinity. The themes of those tales, we argue, constitute broad contexts for constructing masculine identities and our analysis offers new insights into how masculine identity is constructed through discourse and why violence is a significantly male-dominated activity; insights which address some of the lacks in current theoretical work on both masculinity and violence. Keywords discourse, gender, masculinities, news, representation, violence Introducing Raoul Moat In July 2010 Raoul Moat shot and seriously injured his ex-partner and murdered her new boyfriend, whom he mistakenly thought was in the police force. On the following day he shot and blinded a police officer. Moat then went on the run 'dressed for war' (The Times, McIntosh et al., 201 Oc) armed with shotguns and living rough in the countryside around Rothbury in Northumbria Corresponding author: Maggie Wykes, Centre for Criminological Research, School of Law, University of Sheffield, Bartolome House, Winter St, Sheffield S3 7ND, UK. Email: m.wykes@shef.ac.uk

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