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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Levins, Alice (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Collection:Gender and justice series ; 10.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.