He Must Learn What Being a Man is All About

Negotiating the Male Code at the Louisiana State Penitentiary

Bibliographic Data

ID2152734
AuthorsLiam Kennedy (0009-0008-3694-7921, University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume37
Issue2
Pages151-166
Publication date2016-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDeviant Behavior (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01639625.2014.1004027
OpenAlexW2207813528
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited33

Much of what has been written about masculinities inside prisons focuses on the pressure to live up to a hypermasculine ideal that privileges aggression, the concealment of vulnerability, and the victimization of weaker inmates. Believing this approach lacks nuance, I explore how prisoners writing in The Angolite, the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s prison newsmagazine, conceive of manhood. Incorporating hundreds of men’s voices into this discussion reveals the complexity of these prisoners’ lives as men—their emotional depth, friendships, and struggles to grow, learn, and better themselves—and compels us to reconsider what we think goes on inside prisons

Aggression · Code (set theory · Computer security · Criminology · Ideal (ethics · Negotiation · Political science · Prison · Sociology · State (computer science · Vulnerability (computing · Computer Science · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology