TY - BOOK ID - 85634870 TI - Prison in Iran : a known unknown PY - 2021 SN - 3030571696 3030571688 PB - Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Corrections. KW - Punishment. KW - Human rights. KW - Critical criminology. KW - Social groups. KW - Family. KW - Criminal behavior. KW - Criminology. KW - Prison and Punishment. KW - Human Rights. KW - Critical Criminology. KW - Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. KW - Criminal Behavior. KW - Criminology and Criminal Justice, general. KW - Crime KW - Social sciences KW - Criminals KW - Criminal psychology KW - Deviant behavior KW - Family KW - Families KW - Family life KW - Family relationships KW - Family structure KW - Relationships, Family KW - Structure, Family KW - Social institutions KW - Birth order KW - Domestic relations KW - Home KW - Households KW - Kinship KW - Marriage KW - Matriarchy KW - Parenthood KW - Patriarchy KW - Radical criminology KW - Criminology KW - Association KW - Group dynamics KW - Groups, Social KW - Associations, institutions, etc. KW - Social participation KW - Penalties (Criminal law) KW - Penology KW - Corrections KW - Impunity KW - Retribution KW - Correctional services KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Human rights KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Study and teaching KW - Social aspects KW - Social conditions KW - Law and legislation KW - Prisoners KW - Prisons KW - Dungeons KW - Gaols KW - Penitentiaries KW - Correctional institutions KW - Imprisonment KW - Prison-industrial complex KW - Convicts KW - Imprisoned persons KW - Incarcerated persons KW - Prison inmates KW - Inmates of institutions KW - Persons KW - Inmates UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85634870 AB - 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 prisoner’s 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. . ER -