The profile of prisoners across many Western countries is strikingly similar – 95% male, predominantly undereducated and underemployed, from the most deprived neighbourhoods. This book reflects on how similarly positioned men configure masculinities against global economic shifts that have seen the decimation of traditional, manual-heavy industry and with it the disruption of long-established relations of labour. Drawing on life history interviews and classical ethnography, the book charts a group of men’s experiences pre, during and post prison. Tracking the development of masculinities from childhood to adulthood, across impoverished streets, ‘failing’ schools and inadequate state ‘care’, the book questions whether this proved better preparation for serving prison time than working in their local, service-dominated, labour markets. It integrates theories of crime, geography, economics and masculinity to take into account structural and global economic shifts as well as individual long-term perspectives in order to provide a broad examination on pathways to prison and post prison.
Table of Content
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.
About the author
David Maguire is Director for the Prison Reform Trust’s Building Futures Programme, a five-year programme for those that have served 10 or more years in prison. As a researcher at Oxford University and University College London, UK, he has extensive experience leading on prison-based projects, collecting data on the vulnerabilities facing those in prison and widely disseminating these findings to impact change.
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