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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reich, Adam D. (Adam Dalton), 1981-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index.
ISBN:9780520947788
0520947789