RT Article
T1 “I Don’t Want to Be a Statistic”: Racial-Criminal Stigma, Redemption Bids, and Redemptive Generativity
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 70
IS 5
SP 1393
OP 1418
A1 Fader, Jamie J.
A2 Henson, Abigail
A2 Brey, Jesse
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1888580720
AB Within the context of racial caste and the “stickiness” of criminal labels, men struggle to craft positive masculine identities. Contesting racial-criminal stigma requires men of color to challenge controlling images of violent Black men. Analyzing narratives of 45 millennial men in Philadelphia, we identify redemption bids and redemptive generativity as ways of defying social stigma. Redemption, which has been highlighted in the desistance literature, is a central concern of the men of color we studied, regardless of prior law-breaking or system involvement. Because a criminal history is presumed regardless of past behavior, many men of color engage in performances of “making good” similar to those who were actively engaged in the work of desistance.
K1 Masculinity
K1 Race
K1 Redemption
K1 Stigma
DO 10.1177/00111287221131037