Prison Rape : Law, Media, and Meaning.

Focusing on discourse generated between 1969 and 2006 in the legal arena and in the print news media, the author takes an historical-interpretive approach to illuminate the role of cultural forces and attendant ideologies in shaping the contours of the phenomenon commonly known as?prison rape.? Loca...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Smyth, Michael A.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2011.
Subjects:	Prisoners > Sexual behavior > United States. Male rape > United States. Sex crimes > United States. Prison violence > United States. Prison administration > United States. Prisons in mass media.
Online Access:	Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:	9781593326920 1593326920
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central