Prison in Iran : a known unknown / Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki.
Anaraki, Nahid Rahimipour, author.
2021
HV9785.2 .A53 2021
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Title Prison in Iran : a known unknown / Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki.
Author Anaraki, Nahid Rahimipour, author.
ISBN 3030571696 (electronic book)
9783030571696 (electronic bk.)
9783030571689
3030571688
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57169-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 178 pages) : illustrations, map
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-57169-6 doi
Call Number HV9785.2 .A53 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 365/.955
Summary This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families. It provides an overview of the history of Iranian prisons, depicts the sub-culture in contemporary Iranian prisons, and highlights the forms that gender discrimination takes behind the prison walls. The book draws on the voices of 90 men and women who have been imprisoned in Iran, interviewed in 2012 and 2017 across various parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It presents a different approach to the one proposed by Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish because the author argues that Iran never experienced "the age of sobriety in punishment" and "a slackening of the hold on the body". Whilst penal severity in Iran has reduced, its scope has now extended beyond prisoners to their families, regardless of their age and gender. In Iran, penalties still target the body but now also affect the bodies of the entire prisoners family. It is not just prisoners who suffer from the lack of food, clothes, spaces for sleeping, health services, legal services, safety, and threats of physical violence and abuse but also their families. The book highlights the costs of mothers incarceration for their children. It argues that as long as punishment remains the dominant discourse of the penal system, the minds and bodies of anyone related to incarcerated offenders will remain under tremendous strain. This unique book explores the nature of these systems in a deeply under-covered nation to expand understandings of prisons in the non-Western world
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 13, 2021).
Series Palgrave studies in prisons and penology.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030571689
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1. Introduction
2. History of Prison
3. Prison Subculture
4. Incarcerated Women and Children
5. Conclusion.

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