Hidden Truth: Young Men Navigating Lives In and Out of Juvenile Prison

Name: Hidden Truth: Young Men Navigating Lives In and Out of Juvenile Prison
Author: Adam Dalton Reich, fl. 2010

written by Adam Dalton Reich, fl. 2010 (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2010), 290 page(s)

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Abstract / 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 reconcile their criminal practices with a new game and new "insider masculinity" enforced by guards and administrators.
Field of Interest: Social Work
Author: Adam Dalton Reich, fl. 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Content Type: Book
Duration: 0 sec
Format: Text
Page Count: 290
Publication Year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Place Published / Released: Oakland, CA
Subject: Social Work, Social Sciences, Psychology & Counseling, Poverty, Criminal Justice, Identity (Psychology), Prisons, Juvenile delinquency, Mezzo