ADMJ 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Prison Rape Elimination Act Of 2003, Erving Goffman, Argot
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Placed where the same people work, recreate, worship, sleep, and eat together daily. Prison subculture - values and behavioral patterns characteristic of prison inmates. Prisonization - the socialization of new inmates into prison subculture. Learn convict values, attitudes, roles, and even language. Prison argot - slang characteristic of prison subculture and prison life. Sykes describes pains of imprisonment - frustrations induced by rigors of confinement. Form nexus of deprivation model of prison subculture. In contrast, importation model suggests inmates bring with them values, roles, and behavior patterns of outside world. Mandated collection of statistics on prison rape in federal and state prisons, county and city jails, and juvenile institutions. Among substantiated incidents, 54% involved only inmated and 46% involved staff with inmates. Summary of sexual violence in prison by lee h. booker. Most sexual aggressors do not consider themselves homosexuals. Sexual release not primary motivation for sexual attack.
