Whitening Black Men: narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation

‘You know what? You can’t be a "Black Man" in prison.’ Negative impositions of Blackness, grounded in the myths of Black Criminality, shape assessments of risk and rehabilitation within the scriptural economy of the contemporary prison. This creates a rehabilitative colour line that result...

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Main Author: Warr, Jason (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2023, Volume: 63, Issue: 5, Pages: 1091-1107
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