RT Article
T1 Boys’ zone stories: perspectives from a young men’s prison
JF Criminology & criminal justice
VO 11
IS 2
SP 129
OP 143
A1 Earle, Rod 1958-
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1881249662
AB This article explores aspects of young men’s gender identities as they serve time in an English Young Offender Institution. Based on qualitative research, the article discusses three dimensions of the way the young men talk about their lives, inside and outside prison. It is argued that the evocation of a specific condition of being ‘on road’ is linked to forms of youthful masculine collectivity, ‘my boys’, which valorize pre-modern forms of martial masculinity. These two themes converge in the pre-eminence of ‘postcode pride’, the salience of ‘the local’ in the young men’s accounts of themselves. These aspects of the young men’s experience are explored with reference to other recent research findings on young men’s experience of ‘gang’ activity and living on the social margins.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 141-143
K1 boys
K1 Ethnography
K1 Gender
K1 Masculinity
K1 Prison