1st Edition

Prisoners in Prison Societies

By Ulla Bondeson Copyright 1989
384 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
1: Swedish Correctional Institutions in International and Historical Perspective; 2: Theory and Methodology; 3: The Informal Social System; 4: General Assessment of the Effects of Institutional Life; 5: Criminalization at the Institution Measured by Criminal Attitudes and Solidarity; 6: Argot Knowledge as an Indicator of Criminalization; 7: Indirect Criminalization; 8: Psychological and Social Harm at the Institutions; 9: Deteriorated Social Conditions Outside the Institution and Reconfinements; 10: Positive Impact Processes; 11: Institutional Socialization; 12: Prisonization and Recidivism; 13: Impediments to Reform

Biography

Ulla Bondeson