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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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El Paso :
LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC,
2011.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781593326920 1593326920 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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.? Locating this work within the sociology of punishment, the author employs frame analysis and draws on two previously unrelated literatures? Garland?s cultural analytic model and constitutive legal scholarship? to produce a genealogy of discourse about sexual assault in carceral settings as manifest i. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (195 pages) |
| Bibliography: | ReferencesIndex. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Series: | Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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