Prison’s spoilt identities: Racially structured realities within and beyond

• Main Author: HANIF, Nafis
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: Masculinity; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Prisoners; Sexual behavior; Malays; Singapore; Asian Studies; Law and Race; Race and Ethnicity; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2221; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3478/viewcontent/prison_spoilt.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article begins by seeking an explanation for the solidarity between Malay inmates and guards in perpetrating abusive and discriminatory treatment towards Malay transvestites. In the course of explaining an empirical phenomenon in the Singapore prison, this article has examined Singapore's...