The stains of imprisonment : moral communication and men convicted of sex offenses /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Levins, Alice (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Series:Gender and justice series ; 10.
Subjects:
Sex crimes > Moral and ethical aspects > England.
Sex crimes > Moral and ethical aspects > Wales.
Communication > Moral and ethical aspects.
Sex offenders > England.
Sex offenders > Wales.
Prisoners > England.
Prisoners > Wales.
Violence sexuelle > Aspect moral > Angleterre.
Violence sexuelle > Aspect moral > Pays de Galles.
Communication > Aspect moral.
Délinquants sexuels > Angleterre.
Délinquants sexuels > Pays de Galles.
Prisonniers > Angleterre.
Prisonniers > Pays de Galles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Communication > Moral and ethical aspects
Prisoners
Sex offenders
England
Wales
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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