SOCL 3371 Lecture : Lecture 17
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Wrote about the effects that this structure had on individuals treatment and rehabilitation. Is a place that erects barriers to social interchange with the at large. It"s a socially isolated place, self-sufficient & maintains 24-hour control over its clients: prisons constitute one example of total institution. Asylums, hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, convents, monasteries, military bases. What are some losses or types of deprivation that inmates in prison suffer: liberty, autonomy, goods and service (state issues and only necessities, security (sleep with one eye open, social rejection, loss of job, stimulus (boredom, personal identity. Inmates are inspected, weighed, documented, & given id number. Prison subculture: every correctional institution has a subculture, regardless of the degree of prisonization, unique system of norms that influences a prisoners" behavior, typically to a greater extant than the institution"s formally prescribed rules. Are informal, unwritten rules, but their violation can evoke sanctions from fellow inmates ranging from ostracism to physical violence or even death.
