Hidden Truth
Young Men Navigating Lives In and Out of Juvenile Prison
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Crimes & Criminals, Criminology, Discrimination & Race Relations, Anthropology
| Author: | Adam Reich | ISBN: | 9780520947788 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press | Publication: | July 15, 2010 |
| Imprint: | University of California Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Adam Reich |
| ISBN: | 9780520947788 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Publication: | July 15, 2010 |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
