Hard Cases: Prison Tattooing as Visual Argument

Argumentation and Advocacy

Volumn 43, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 133-143

  McNaughton, Melanie Joy ^a,b  

^a Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

identity; identity performance; prison culture; tattooing; visual argument

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923269708     PISSN: 10511431     EISSN: 25768476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028533.2007.11821669     Document Type: Article

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