Prison Rape : Law, Media, and Meaning.

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Author / Creator:	Smyth, Michael A.
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)
Subject:	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. Male rape. Prison administration. Prison violence. Prisoners -- Sexual behavior. Prisons in mass media. Sex crimes. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11166995

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ISBN:	9781593326920 1593326920 9781593324742 159332474X
Notes:	ReferencesIndex. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Smyth, Michael A. Prison Rape : Law, Media, and Meaning. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, ©2011 9781593324742

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