Viața în detenție. Antropologia cotidianului
Life in detention. The anthropology of everyday life

Summary/Abstract: Defective management of space, profile of detainees, crime as a common criterion, inability of employees to manage a large number of people simultaneously, allow the perpetuation of the prison subculture with its traditions, special hierarchy, slang, informal rules, informal stratification of detainees, etc. Overcoming the negative relationships between the informal layers can be achieved by changing the value orientation of those serving the sentence. The penitentiary subculture divides detainees into informal categories; the respective stratification from the beginning makes the existence of detainees to be based on conflict relations. Atonement for punishment turns for the underprivileged into stress, accompanied by hostility, feelings of inferiority, etc. Detainees submit to informal norms by adopting gestures, dress, expressions, roles, for fear of sanctions. Slang is part of the verbal interaction, rarely used in writing, involves the presence of the informal, often non-compliance or defiance of the formal, it is a vocabulary of the detainee community that changes rapidly if too much of it is known. Slang enhances group cohesion and separates those in the group from those outside the group.

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