01285nam a2200169   4500001000700000100004100007101000800048200004700056311004000103330077900143461009800922606002001020606001601040606002101056606001701077700002101094373439  a20080114u           y0pory50      ba  aeng  aKilling gay men, 1976-2001fPeter Bartlett  aResumo inserto no próprio artigo.  aThe primary claim of this paper is that sufficient consistencies can be shown in the cases studied here and in the related literature that gay sexual homicide constitutes a coherent object of study. That is, in itself, a significant finding. Gay men are dying, and the circumstances under which that is taking place warrants analysis in its own right. The cases are of broader intellectual interest, however. The existing literature relating to sexual crime pre-supposes a male assailant and a female victim. This is true both of the sociology of masculinity and also the psychological literature. The cases in this study present sexual crime in a context in which women are absent, and, as such, raise questions about the scope, assumptions and findings of that literature.  cOxforddJuly 2007vVol. 47, n. 4tBritish Journal of Criminology (The)x0007-0955pp. 573-595  aESTUDO DE CASOS  aHOMICÍDIO  aHOMOSSEXUALIDADE  aCRIME SEXUAL  aBARTELETTbPeter