Ievins The Stains of Imprisonment

Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offenses
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-38372-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 10, 214 Seiten

Reihe: Gender and Justice

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ievins, Alice

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Über Autor(innen)

Ievins, Alice
Alice Ievins is a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool.

Ievins Alice :
Alice Ievins is Research Associate at the Prisons Research Centre, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.