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.

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Preface

Introduction: Playing at Masculinity

Part I / Outsider Masculinity

Chapter 1. Outsider Masculinity and the Game of Outlaw
Chapter 2. Investment and Pure Critique

Part II / Insider Masculinity

Chapter 3. Insider Masculinity and the Game of Law
Chapter 4. Adapting to the Game of Law

Part III / Critical Practice

Chapter 5. The Hidden TREWTH and the Possibility of Critical Practice
Chapter 6. Alternative Space and Its Limits

Conclusion: Critical Practice and Public Policy

Bibliography
Notes
Index