CCJ 2020 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Argot, Total Institution, Political Prisoner
10 Jul 2017
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An enclosed facility separated from society both physically and socially. In habitants share all aspects of their daily lives. Inmates form their own distinctive values, styles of life, and pressure residents to fulfill rigidly prescribed behavior roles. Rules and procedures enforced by the prison staff. The powerful inmate world controlled by prison subculture. Values and behavioral characteristics of prison inmates and guards. Response to reform (ex: participation in speaking clubs) Disenfranchised - built on radical and political rhetoric. Accepting the prison lifestyles and criminal values that come along with incarceration. The degree of prisonization that varies over time shown through a u-shaped curve. Personal values are of main importance; beginning of bell curve. Inmates adopt the lifestyle of prison and are fully assimilated; prisonization; middle of bell curve. Inmate shows renewed appreciation for conventional values; end of bell curve. What are the 5 main prison codes: don"t interfere with the interests of other inmates.
