“When the Hell Are You Going to Grow Up?”: a Life-Course Account of Hybrid Masculinities Among Incarcerated Men

Recent life-course scholarship has argued that desistance from (rather than persistence in) crime is a marker of adulthood. In this article, I argue that a commitment to desistance is only one of many elements of the participants’ sense of adult masculinity, which is best understood by drawing on th...

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1. VerfasserIn: Umamaheswar, Janani (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2020
In: Journal of developmental and life-course criminology
Jahr: 2020, Band: 6, Heft: 1, Seiten: 127-151
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Schlagwörter:
Masculinity
Hybrid masculinity
Incarceration
Prison
The life course
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Zusammenfassung:Recent life-course scholarship has argued that desistance from (rather than persistence in) crime is a marker of adulthood. In this article, I argue that a commitment to desistance is only one of many elements of the participants’ sense of adult masculinity, which is best understood by drawing on theoretical literature on “hybrid masculinities.” By linking life-course criminological literature with recent theoretical advancements in the sociology of gender, I connect two important, but as yet independent, strands of research.
ISSN:2199-465X
DOI:10.1007/s40865-020-00137-5