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Prison in Iran - A Known Unknown (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Prison in Iran - A Known Unknown (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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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.
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