RT Book
T1 The Stains of Imprisonment: Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offenses
T2 Gender and justice
JF Gender and justice
A1 Ievins, Alice
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1833333128
AB 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 morally communicative institutions, instilling in prisoners particular ideas about the offenses they have committed-ideas that carry implications for prisoners' moral character. Investigating the moral messages contained in the prosaic yet power-imbued processes that make up daily life in custody, Ievins finds that the prison she studied communicated a pervasive sense of disgust and shame, marking the men it held as permanently stained. Rather than promoting accountability, this message discouraged prisoners from engaging in serious moral reflection on the harms they had caused. Analyzing these effects, Ievins explores the role that imprisonment plays as a response to sexual harm, and the extent to which it takes us closer to and further from justice
NO Bibliografie: Seite 177-196
CN HV6593.G7
SN 9780520383722
K1 Communication : Moral and ethical aspects
K1 Prisoners : England
K1 Prisoners : Wales
K1 Sex crimes : Moral and ethical aspects : England
K1 Sex crimes : Moral and ethical aspects : Wales
K1 Sex Offenders : England
K1 Sex Offenders : Wales
K1 Social Science / Criminology
DO 10.1525/9780520383722