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Punishment in Disguise: Penal Governance and Canadian Women's Imprisonment
Kelly Hannah-Moffat
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Paperback. A look at some current forms of penal governance in Canadian federal women?s prisons and a suggestion that the prison system itself, given its primary functions of custody and punishment, is consistent in thwarting attempts at progressive reform. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSJ1; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
In Punishment in Disguise , Kelly Hannah-Moffat presents a look at some current forms of penal governance in Canadian federal women's prisons. Hannah-Moffat uses women's imprisonment to theorize the complexity of penal power and to show how the meaning and content of women's penal governance changes over time, how penal reform strategies intersect and evolve into complex patterns of governing, how governing is always gendered and racialized, and how expert, non-expert, and hybrid forms of power and knowledge inform penal strategies. The author posits that although there has been a series of distinct phases in the imprisonment of ... Read more
In Punishment in Disguise , Kelly Hannah-Moffat presents a look at some current forms of penal governance in Canadian federal women's prisons. Hannah-Moffat uses women's imprisonment to theorize the complexity of penal power and to show how the meaning and content of women's penal governance changes over time, how penal reform strategies intersect and evolve into complex patterns of governing, how governing is always gendered and racialized, and how expert, non-expert, and hybrid forms of power and knowledge inform penal strategies. The author posits that although there has been a series of distinct phases in the imprisonment of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
443g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802082749
SKU
V9780802082749
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About Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Kelly Hannah-Moffat is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto.
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