The Stains of Imprisonment Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offenses

Recent decades have seen a widespread effort to imprison more people for sexual violence. 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. This book examines the ways in which prisons are m...

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Main Author: Ievins, Alice (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2023
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