The stains of imprisonment moral communication and men convicted of sex offenses
"Recent decades have seen a widespread effort to imprison more people for sexual violence. The Stains of Imprisonment offers an ethnographic account of one of the worlds that this push has created: an English prison for men convicted of sex offenses. This book examines the ways in which prisons...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2023, [2023]©2023
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| Series: | Gender and justice
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Punishing rape : feminisms and the carceral conversation
- Communicating badly : prisons as morally communicative institutions
- Distorting institutions : structuring the moral dialogue
- Managing guilt : living as a 'sex offender' in prison
- Maintaining innocence : contesting guilt and challenging imprisonment
- Moralising boundaries : staff-prisoner relationships and the communication of difference
- Denying community : social relationships and the dangers of acknowledgement
- Judging prisons : the limitations and excesses of denunciatory punishment