Prison Rape : Law, Media, and Meaning.
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| Author / Creator: | Smyth, Michael A. |
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| Imprint: | El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (195 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11166995 |
| 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 OC prison rape.OCO Locating this work within the sociology of punishment, the author employs frame analysis and draws on two previously unrelated literatures OCo GarlandOCOs cultural analytic model and constitutive legal scholarship OCo to produce a genealogy of discourse about sexual assault in carceral settings as manifest in two important arenas of meaning making. In addition to providing a detailed analysis of the often counterintuitive relationship between these discourses over time, the book considers the recent unanimous passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (2003) at a highly punitive historical moment in a nation that has traditionally preferred to litigate rather than legislate questions around the treatment of those it incarcerates." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (195 pages) |
| Bibliography: | ReferencesIndex. |
| ISBN: | 9781593326920 1593326920 9781593324742 159332474X |