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 are m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ievins, Alice, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press [2023]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Gender and Justice Series
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009707735306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Punishing Rape: Feminisms and the Carceral Conversation
  • 2. Communicating Badly: Prisons as Morally Communicative Institutions
  • 3. Distorting Institutions: Structuring the Moral Dialogue
  • 4. Managing Guilt: Living as a "Sex Offender" in Prison
  • 5. Maintaining Innocence: Contesting Guilt and Challenging Imprisonment
  • 6. Moralizing Boundaries: Staff-Prisoner Relationships and the Communication of Difference
  • 7. Denying Community: Social Relationships and the Dangers of Acknowledgment
  • 8. Judging Prisons: The Limitations and Excesses of Denunciatory Punishment
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index