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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456387503321

Autore

Reich Adam D (Adam Dalton), <1981->

Titolo

Hidden truth [[electronic resource] ] : young men navigating lives in and out of juvenile prison / / Adam D. Reich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010

ISBN

9786612660856

1-282-66085-3

0-520-94778-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

365/.42

Soggetti

Juvenile delinquency

Juvenile corrections

Masculinity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- PART I. Outsider Masculinity -- PART II. Insider Masculinity -- PART III. Critical Practice -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Hidden Truth takes the reader inside a Rhode Island juvenile prison to explore broader questions of how poor, disenfranchised young men come to terms with masculinity and identity. Adam D. Reich, who worked with inmates to produce a newspaper, writes vividly and memorably about the young men he came to know, and in the process extends theories of masculinity, crime, and social reproduction into a provocative new paradigm. Reich suggests that young men's participation in crime constitutes a game through which they achieve "outsider masculinity." Once in prison these same youths are forced to reconcile their criminal practices with a new game and new "insider masculinity" enforced by guards and administrators.