A01=Adam Reich
american prison system
Author_Adam Reich
Category=JKVQ2
crime and punishment
criminal practices
disenfranchised populations
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gender roles
imprisoned men
inmates
insider masculinity
juvenile inmates
juvenile men
juvenile prison
life after prison
life in prison
life stories
male identity
masculinity
mens roles
modern gender roles
nonfiction
outsider masculinity
poor men
prison system
rhode island
social reproduction
united states institutions
young men
youths
Product details
- ISBN 9780520262669
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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"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.
Adam D. Reich is a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley.
