The Stains of Imprisonment
The Stains of Imprisonment A free open access ebook is available upon publication. The Stains of Imprisonment offers an ethnographic account of one of the worlds that this push has created: an…
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The Stains of Imprisonment
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. 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. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Recent decades have seen a widespread effort to imprison more people for sexual violence.
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. 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. Rather than promoting accountability, this message