New Perspectives on Prison Masculinities

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Maycock, Matthew (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hunt, Kate (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
• Subjects: Corrections.; Punishment.; Sex and law.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Critical criminology.; Criminology.; Sociology.; Prison and Punishment.; Gender, Sexuality and Law.; Crime and Society.; Critical Criminology.; Criminological Theory.; Gender Studies.

This edited collection utilises recent advances in theories on masculinities to explore and analyse the ways in which prisons shape performances of gender, both within prison settings and following release from prison. The authors assess here how the highly gendered world of the prison (where the po...