TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - An imprisoning gaze: Practices of gendered, racialized and epistemic violence
JO  - International review of victimology
A1  - Pollack, Shoshana
SP  - 103
EP  - 114
VL  - 19
IS  - 1
N2  - This article examines how correctional systems absorb feminist-inspired reformist discourses that focus upon women's victimization as a 'pathway' to incarceration. Through the absorption process the concept of gender loses its socio-economic and political resonance, centering instead the psychological effects of gender oppression. A psychological notion of gender has been used to individualize and pathologize criminalized women through prison programming and is linked with notions of 'risk' to re-offend. I reflect upon the role of evidence-based practice (EBP) in exacerbating epistemic problems related to the subjectivity of the 'risky victim.' Moving beyond this conceptualization, I suggest the importance of an analysis which draws connections across spaces of confinement and challenges the very role and practices of prisons as examples of racialized and gendered violence themselves.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0269-7580
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269758012447219
ID  - ref1
ER  -