By Jennifer Anne Sloan
This publication seriously analyses how males in felony act out their masculine identities. It considers how males negotiate their time in legal, which could contain being put right into a female place relative to different males, and especially seems to be on the subversion of heteronormative gender positionings via our bodies, areas, time, and relationships. Vulnerability is additionally taken as a key attention, and males are proven to behave out their masculinities for the good thing about an viewers that issues to them. in spite of the fact that, that viewers is proven to be topic to alter at any cut-off date.
Using vast ethnographic information drawn from grownup male prisoners, the ebook adopts the perspective of the person prisoner as a body to contemplate masculinity. It additionally advances ethnographic study in criminology by way of reflecting upon the id of researchers in prisons, quite the feminine researcher's gendered id in such environments. it will likely be of significant curiosity to students of penology, gender and ethnography.
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When we try to describe it we find ourselves at a loss, or we produce descriptions that are obviously inappropriate. Our knowledge is ordinarily tacit, implicit in our patterns of action and in our feel for the stuff with which we are dealing. It seems right to say that our knowing is in action. (Schön 1983: 49) This situation is the same for everyone—we all know different elements of life in different ways. The subjectivity of the lived experience is unavoidable, even if we wished to live some other way.
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Yet, as Warr notes, ‘it is possible to have an empathetic understanding of other people’s experiences through research’ (2004: 578), which may even be ‘a significant guide to or even source of valuable data’ (Liebling 1999: 147). Although I did my best to encourage trust and rapport with individuals, I could not justify risking my personal safety by entering into a reciprocal relationship with regard to the exchange of personal information, but by maintaining a professional and friendly, albeit private identity, it is hoped that participants were put at ease in the interview process.
