Male, failed, jailed : masculinities and 'revolving door' imprisonment in the UK

Male, failed, jailed : masculinities and 'revolving door' imprisonment in the UK / David Maguire.

"In his classic study Learning to Labour, Paul Willis showed us how the pressures of masculinity duped working class English boys into self-entrapment in lives of manual labour. Forty years later in post-industrial north of England, Maguire finds that the same demands of masculinity are now pre...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maguire, David, 1971- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Series:Palgrave studies in prisons and penology.
Subjects:
Corrections > Great Britain.
Crime > Sociological aspects.
Male prisoners > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Masculinity.
Corrections
Crime > Sociological aspects
Masculinity
Great Britain
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Failing Masculinities
  • Chapter 2. Theorising Marginalisied Masculinities
  • Chapter 3
  • Economic Change: Post Industrial Masculinities
  • Chapter 4
  • Background and Methods: Epistemological Privilege?
  • Chapter 5. Local Lads: Pathways to Prison
  • Chapter 6. (Non)Working Lives
  • Chapter 7. Boys to "Cons" : Adolescent to Adult Transitions in the Local Prison
  • Chapter 8. Vulnerable Masculinities: Absent Men and Imagined Futures
  • Chapter 9. Conclusion: Marginalised from the Margins.

Similar Items