Editors:
- Examines what it means to ‘be a man’ in prisons paying particular attention to the supposed ‘ultramasculine’, or ‘hypermasculine’ nature of the prison environment
- Addresses specific issues such as fathering and issues of intersectionality such as sexuality and ethnicity
- Advances research from leading contributors drawn from Scotland, Australia, the UK, and the USA
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
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The Scottish Prison Service, Edinburgh, UK
Matthew Maycock
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University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Kate Hunt
About the editors
Kate Hunt is Associate Director at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU), and also Professor of Gender and Health, University of Glasgow, Scotland. She leads a programme of research funded by the UK Medical Research Council and Scotland’s Chief Scientist Office on ‘Understanding and Improving Health within Settings and Organisations’.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Perspectives on Prison Masculinities
Editors: Matthew Maycock, Kate Hunt
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65654-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65653-3Published: 02 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09745-5Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65654-0Published: 21 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 343
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Gender, Sexuality and Law, Crime and Society, Critical Criminology, Criminological Theory, Gender Studies