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The Prison and the Gallows: Not the Usual Suspects: Feminists, Women's Groups, and the Anti-Rape Movement
Marie Gottschalk
- pp 115-138
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The article was published on 2006-06-01. It has received 2 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gallows & Prison.read more
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Judges and the Politics of Death: Deciding Between the Bill of Rights and the Next Election in Capital Cases (with Keenan)
TL;DR: The thunderous voice of the present-day "higher authority" that Justice Stevens described is heard today with unmistakable clarity in the courts throughout the United States as discussed by the authors, and those judges who do not listen and bend to political pressures may lose their positions on the bench.
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Sending a Message: The Expressive View of Punishment
TL;DR: Public discussions of solitary confinement often seem utterly irrational as mentioned in this paper, and people who know nothing about the topic pontificate about the cable television inmates supposedly watch, while others who have never met anyone incarcerated insist that solitary is too good for prisoners.
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Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
TL;DR: This paper explored the race and gender dimensions of violence against women of color and found that the experiences of women of colour are often the product of intersecting patterns of racism and sexism, and how these experiences tend not to be represented within the discourse of either feminism or antiracism.
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
TL;DR: The authors discusses structural intersectionality, the ways in which the location of women of color at the intersection of race and gender makes their real experience of domestic violence, rape, and remedial reform qualitatively different from that of white women.
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States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity
TL;DR: Brown argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography powerfully legitimize the state: such apparently well-intentioned attempts harm victims further by portraying them as so helpless as to be in continuing need of governmental protection as mentioned in this paper.
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THE LIMITS OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE Strategies of Crime Control in Contemporary Society
TL;DR: A descriptive analysis of strategies of crime control in contemporary Britain and elsewhere can be found in this paper, where the authors argue that the normality of high crime rates and the limitations of criminal justice agencies have created a new predicament for governments.
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Punishment and modern society : a study in social theory
TL;DR: Punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural meanings as discussed by the authors, and it is worth noting that punishment is the heart and soul of criminology, and perhaps of sociology as well.