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The Cultural Prison : Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment /
This book offers a comprehensive critical study of popular cultural representations of prisoners from 1950 to the present. Rather than attempting to explain the causes of crime or the actual conditions of prisons, or providing prescriptions for criminal justice policies, the author describes how pri...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Cultural Prison : |b Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment / |c John M. Sloop. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: The Historical Force of Rhetoric and the Disciplinary Force of Culture; 2. Prelude to the Present: American Histories of Punishment; 3. Rehabilitation and the Altruistic Inmate, 1950-1959; 4. The Inmate Divide: Rehabilitation and Immorality, 1960-1968; 5. Rehabilitation, Revolution, and Irrationality, 1969-1974; 6. The Meaning of Just Deserts: Valuing Our Discipline, 1975-1993; 7. Conclusions, Beginnings: Into the Future; Appendix 1. Theoretical Perspectives; Appendix 2. Differentiating Eras of Discourse. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Appendix 3. Percentage of Prisoners in State and Federal Prisons by Race and GenderNotes; References; Index. | |
| 520 | |a This book offers a comprehensive critical study of popular cultural representations of prisoners from 1950 to the present. Rather than attempting to explain the causes of crime or the actual conditions of prisons, or providing prescriptions for criminal justice policies, the author describes how prisoners and punishment have been represented in popular discourse, most notably along the lines of race and gender. The readings from the period 1950-59 represent the male prisoner as humorous, patriotic, Caucasian, and hapless. Both male and female prisoners are represented as having altruistic motives and as desiring a reunion with the culture previously shunned. During the period 1960-68, the failure of rehabilitation programs and a renewal of prison riots are cited as evidence for often competing depictions of the male prisoner. Representation of the altruistic Caucasian continues, but a different sort of prisoner also emerges, one who becomes "African-Americanized," while seen as increasingly violent. Another split in the dominant representations of the male prisoner emerges during the period 1969-75. In the readings, although the white male prisoner remains forever open for rehabilitation and reunion, the other male prisoner divides into complex characterizations - both violent and both depicted as African-American. Weighted by the depictions of the past and plagued by economic and political events that increase the number of prisoners, the period 1975 to the present is depicted as a complex time when the public has adopted the concept of "just deserts" for prisoners and when the "willing" prisoner has emerged. The "cultural prison" refers to the way in which this study acts as an investigation of "the discipline of discipline"; it is a study of the way in which discipline is shaped and formed in public discourse. The volume concludes with a fascinating account of the move to electronic means of surveillance, and coupled with the representations of the prisoner along the lines of race and gender, its explains what these new techniques mean to contemporary culture. | ||
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