Prison Rape : Law, Media, and Meaning.

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Focusing on discourse generated between 1969 and 2006 in the legal arena and in the print news media, the author takes an historical-interpretive approach to illuminate the role of cultural forces and attendant ideologies in shaping the contours of the phenomenon commonly known as?prison rape.? Loca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smyth, Michael A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2011.
Colección:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Temas:
Prisoners > Sexual behavior > United States.
Male rape > United States.
Sex crimes > United States.
Prison violence > United States.
Prison administration > United States.
Prisons in mass media.
Prisonniers > Sexualité > États-Unis.
Viol d'hommes > États-Unis.
Violence sexuelle > États-Unis.
Violence dans les prisons > États-Unis.
Prisons > Administration > États-Unis.
Prisons dans les médias.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Male rape
Prison administration
Prison violence
Prisoners > Sexual behavior
Prisons in mass media
Sex crimes
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Focusing on discourse generated between 1969 and 2006 in the legal arena and in the print news media, the author takes an historical-interpretive approach to illuminate the role of cultural forces and attendant ideologies in shaping the contours of the phenomenon commonly known as?prison rape.? Locating this work within the sociology of punishment, the author employs frame analysis and draws on two previously unrelated literatures? Garland?s cultural analytic model and constitutive legal scholarship? to produce a genealogy of discourse about sexual assault in carceral settings as manifest i.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (195 pages)
Bibliografía:ReferencesIndex.
ISBN:9781593326920
1593326920

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