CRIM 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Culture Shock, Mandatory Sentencing
27 Apr 2018
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Chapter 9 – Doing Time: The Experience of Inmates
A General Profile of Inmate Populations
- Offenders confined in correctional institutions tend to be, male, young, single, poorly
educated and marginally skilled.
- Mostly aboriginal or black (poor lives)
- Most in provincial/territorial institutions (less than a month)
- Most suffer from alcohol and drug addiction
- Females have similar drawbacks but also sexual and physical abuse
- Federal Incarcerates population (61% white, 22% aboriginal, 9% black, 3% Asian, 5%
other)
Going Inside
- 1st time offenders receive: culture shock
- Long term offenders are unaffected
- When someone enters the prison, they are marginally and psychologically stripped
down.
o Involves status degradation ceremonies: issuing of prison clothing, the
assignment of an identification number, the loss of most personal possessions,
and the end of the unhindered communication with the outside
- Degradation is closely related to marginalization.
- All inmates are proided ith istitutio’s regulatios ad ith a orietatio.
Living Inside
- Carceral experience is explained by the Pains of Imprisonment: the deprivations
experienced by inmates confined in correctional institutions, including loss of
autonomy, privacy, security, and freedom of movement and association.
- Gresham Skyes identified a number of deprivations experienced by inmates: loss of
liberty, loss of access to goods and services, loss of access to heterosexual relationships,
loss of personal autonomy and personal security
- Pains of insecurities are associated with indeterminate sentences, which leave inmates
guessig he they’ll e released.
The Inmate Social System
- Two explanations
o Deprivation theory: inmate social system develops as a consequence of inmates
attempts to mitigate the pains of imprisonment
o Iportatio Theory: pre-prison attitudes and behaviours that are brought by
inmates into institution.
- Other concepts that exist are
o Prizonization: inmates become socialized into the norms, values and culture of
prison
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Document Summary
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