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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2010.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520947788 0520947789 |