Strategic masculinities

Vulnerabilities, risk and the production of prison masculinities

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12586409
AutoresRosemary Ricciardelli (0000-0002-0905-8968, Memorial University of Newfoundland, autor correspondente), Katharina Maier (0000-0002-0678-2854, University of Toronto), Kelly Hannah‐moffat (0000-0002-1154-8034, University of Toronto), Kelly Hannah-Moffat (University of Toronto)
Ano2015
Volume19
Fascículo4
Páginas491-513
Data de publicação2015-01-12
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTheoretical Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-4806 • E-ISSN: 1461-7439
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1362480614565849
OpenAlexW2052404342
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas57
Referências citadas49

Expressions of masculinity in prison are most often characterized as being structured in response to an environment that encourages displays of stoicism, bravery, physical prowess and violence/aggression. However, we found that the antagonistic, precarious and risk-prone environment of the prison shapes prisoners’ behaviours and the constitution of ‘normative’ and hegemonic masculinities in more nuanced ways than prior research suggests. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 56 male parolees, we explored how these men perceived and responded to risk while incarcerated, as well as how prison masculinities are linked with experiences and management of risk to their personal (legal, physical and emotional) safety. In this article, we focus on how prisoners mobilized and negotiated their masculine subjectivities to handle the uncertainty of imprisonment and the various risks they encountered in prison. We argue that penal risks and prison masculinities are mutually constitutive; risk is linked to perceptions of physical and emotional vulnerability, which shape prisoners’ masculine embodiment. Simultaneously, prisoners try to respond to uncertainty and perceived risk in ways that present their masculinity as empowered rather than submissive. Our findings advance the conceptualization of prison and hegemonic masculinities, penal environments and risk/uncertainty

Computer security · Conceptualization · Criminology · Hegemonic masculinity · Imprisonment · Masculinity · Normative · Political science · Prison · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology