Power, shame and social relations in prisons for men convicted of sex offences
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Journal Title
Prison Service Journal
ISSN
0300-3558
Issue
251
Pages
3-10
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Article
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Ievins, A. (2020). Power, shame and social relations in prisons for men convicted of sex offences. Prison Service Journal, (251), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.81467
Abstract
Since 2016, the Comparative Penology (COMPEN) project, led by Ben Crewe, has been conducting a large-scale comparison of penal policymaking and the prisoner experience in England and Wales and Norway. At its core, the project is an attempt to determine whether the Nordic Exceptionalism thesis — the idea that Nordic penal systems have a liberal-humanitarian culture and have resisted the punitive turn to which all other Western countries have succumbed — stands up to detailed empirical analysis. The COMPEN project is particularly interested in the experience of two groups who are often overlooked in the literature
on imprisonment: women, and men convicted of sex offences. It is the second of these groups which is the focus of this article.
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European Research Council (648691)
Economic and Social Research Council (ES/S011749/1)
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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.81467
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/334056
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