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Author Smyth, Michael A

Title Prison Rape : Law, Media, and Meaning
Published El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (195 pages)
Series Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship
Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Contents CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; Theoretical Concerns; Data; Method of Analysis; CHAPTER TWO: Prison Rape in the Popular Press, 1969-1991; Introduction; Diagnosing the Problem; Assigning Blame; CHAPTER THREE: Prison Rape in the Popular Press, 1992-2006; Introduction; Diagnosing the Problem; Assigning Blame; CHAPTER FOUR: Prison Rape in the Courts,1969-1991; Diagnosing the Problem; Attributing Blame; CHAPTER FIVE: Prison Rape in the Courts, 1992-2006; Introduction; Diagnosing the Problem; Attributing Blame; CHAPTER SIX: Summary and Conclusions; The Historical Era; The Contemporary Era
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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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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Male rape
Prison administration
Prison violence
Prisoners -- Sexual behavior
Prisons in mass media
Sex crimes
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011021129
ISBN 9781593326920
1593326920