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

By:

Reich, Adam D. (Adam Dalton), 1981-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520947788
0520947789

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hidden truth.DDC classification:

365/.42 22

LOC classification:

HV9069 .R435 2010eb

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Contents:

Introduction: playing at masculinity -- Part I: Outsider masculinity -- ch. 1. Outsider masculinity and the game of outlaw -- ch. 2. Investment and pure critique -- Part II: Insider masculinity -- ch. 3. Insider masculinity and the game of law -- ch. 4. Adapting to the game of law -- Part III. Critical practice -- ch. 5. The hidden trewth and the possibility of critical practice -- ch. 6. Alternative space and its limits -- Conclusion: critical practice and public policy.

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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index.

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.