Learning to serve time: troubling spaces of working class masculinities in the UK

Thesis

This thesis is an exploration of the classed and gendered trajectories that lead to 'revolving door' incarceration for a group of men from working class backgrounds. Considering that men commit most crime and, in the UK, account for over 95% of the prison population, there is relatively little scholarship that explores the links between masculinity and crime and almost a dearth of ethnographic enquiry into the links between the social construction of masculinities and incarceration. In res...

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Authors: Maguire, D

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: class; breadwinner; unemployment; youth transitions; prison masculinities; prison; deindustrialisation; crime; education; men; masculinities
• Subjects: gender studies; criminology; sociology; men's studies; Human geography