PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT OF LIBERTY DEPRIVATION AND CUSTODIAL ENVIRONMENT
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT OF LIBERTY DEPRIVATION AND CUSTODIAL ENVIRONMENT

Summary/Abstract: In any society behavior deviation from basic social rules and values is a common phenomenon. Any society judges the behavior of its members, not so much in terms of its intrinsic motivations, but especially in terms of this behavior’s compliance with the recognized rules and values. Rules violation entails – as you well know- coercitive and punitive measures. Goffman considers prison as a total institution, in the sense of place of resistance to a number of individuals who have similar situations, being separated by the outside society for a considerable period of time, leading together a cycle of life enclosed by formal bans forbidding them to carry out certain activities, to have contact with their families, to personalize the inhabited space, or to take initiatives. Crime as a social phenomenon harms society’s interests, and those who break the rules are labeled as such. The penalty is imprisonment for them, where the prisoner is subjected to coercive effects of prison life, with the status subordinated to the law. Liberty deprivation in a penitentiary environment has a great resonance in the lifestyle of each person, both during detention as well as after release.

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