The Stains of Imprisonment

Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offenses

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19910092
AutoresAlice Ievins (0000-0003-1945-3395, University of California System, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Data de publicação2023-01-24
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoStains of Imprisonment (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/9780520383722
OpenAlexW4320057888
Open LibraryOL46115231M
ISBN9780520383722
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDuK-bEAAAQBAJ
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17
Referências citadas116

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

Criminology · Disgust · Harm · Imprisonment · Power (physics) · Prison · Shame · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology