The Stains of Imprisonment
eBook - ePub

The Stains of Imprisonment

Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offenses

  1. 214 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Stains of Imprisonment

Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offenses

About this book

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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 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.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520383715
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780520383722
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. 1. Punishing Rape: Feminisms and the Carceral Conversation
  7. 2. Communicating Badly: Prisons as Morally Communicative Institutions
  8. 3. Distorting Institutions: Structuring the Moral Dialogue
  9. 4. Managing Guilt: Living as a “Sex Offender” in Prison
  10. 5. Maintaining Innocence: Contesting Guilt and Challenging Imprisonment
  11. 6. Moralizing Boundaries: Staff-Prisoner Relationships and the Communication of Difference
  12. 7. Denying Community: Social Relationships and the Dangers of Acknowledgment
  13. 8. Judging Prisons: The Limitations and Excesses of Denunciatory Punishment
  14. Notes
  15. References

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