Hidden truth :: young men navigating lives in and out of juvenile prison /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Reich, Adam D. (Adam Dalton), 1981-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
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Zusammenfassung: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 re.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index.
ISBN:9780520947788
0520947789

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