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Prisoners in Prison Societies (Paperback)
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Prisoners in "Prison Societies "is a study of criminal career
patterns over time, demonstrating specifically how and in what ways
imprisonment has a positive correlation with later recidivism. The
book combines original research and a ten-year follow-up study of
Swedish inmates, surveying their attitudes on everything from
political ideology to prison reform. The work is much more than a
survey of prisoner attitudes, however; it also includes official
statements and administrative staff assessments at the institutions
examined. As a result, the text avoids the usual special pleading
of criminological writings. "Prisoners in Prison" "Societies
"analyzes thirteen correctional institutions, ranging from training
schools to youth and adult prisons as well as a preventive
detention facility. These four types cover representative samples
of male and female, young and old offenders. In individual and
group interviews, conducted with a time interval, the author finds
that the form of incarceration is less significant in determining
prisoner behavior than the fact of incarceration as such. Whether
one looks at the data across variables or in longitudinal terms,
the fact of criminalization rather than the goal of rehabilitation
creates conditions of permanent incarceration. A leitmotif of the
book is comparison of penal institutions and policies in the U.S.
and Sweden, with an encyclopedic presentation of the sociological
and criminological literature. From the American tradition,
Bondeson distinguishes between program research and sanction
research. Her notion of prisonization, as a special form of
socialization, derives from the work of scholars from Clemmer to
Goffman. Her work utilizes notions of informal social systems
within formal systems, especially how the former preempt the
latter. The interplay of original research at the prison level,
coupled with a sweeping command of the basic literature, makes this
book unique.
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