ABSTRACT
A section on crime is included in this chapter, as many of the boys who admitted in interview to criminal acts explained that they did them as a form of self-entertainment to combat boredom. The conclusion to the chapter is a wideranging discussion of how the boys’ cultural and leisure activities express and shape their identities, including their masculinities, and also raises the issue of fathering and role-modelling in relation to masculine socialisation.
