Thieves, Convicts and the Inmate Culture

Irwin, John; Cressey, Donald R.

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“…Another perspective argues that the penal culture comes from within the prison itself through the deprivations inmates experience inside the facility (Sykes, 1958). 5 Additionally, a conflicting typology of inmate subcultures was proposed by Irwin and Cressey (1962) that 4…”

Section: Subculture Of Violence and The Street Codementioning

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Attitude is everything: Youth attitudes, gang involvement, and length of institutional gang membership

Scott

2014

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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Prison gangs have been a topic of interest among scholars, but research on youth prison gangs is limited. Furthermore, violent attitudes and gang involvement have not been addressed extensively, and a better understanding of youth prison gang involvement is needed to effectively inform responses to violence in correctional facilities. This paper fills this research gap through an analysis of violent attitudes as they relate to gang involvement and length of gang membership. The data derive from interviews with 285 males conducted in a larger study on gangs and violence in California’s youth correctional facilities. The results show that gang members tend to have stronger violent and aggressive attitudes compared to nongang members, and length of institutional gang membership is statistically significant and negatively associated with violent and aggressive attitudes. Furthermore, a youth’s violent and aggressive attitudes will vary depending on if the youth has never spent time in an institutional gang, is currently in one, or is a former institutional gang member. I conclude the paper with a discussion of these findings and what they imply for gang group processes, theory, institutional policy, and programs.

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Section: Subculture Of Violence and The Street Codementioning

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Attitude is everything: Youth attitudes, gang involvement, and length of institutional gang membership

Scott

2014

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“…In literature concerning aggression in secure institutions, the importation and the deprivation models are historically the main theoretical models explaining the adjustment of patients to institutional life. In the importation model (Irwin & Cressey, 1962), the characteristics of delinquents before their incarceration play a major role in their adjustment to institutional life (DeLisi et al, 2010;Van Nieuwenhuijzen et al, 2006) and influence the occurrence of aggression incidents. Gender, race, gang affiliation, a history of earlier and more severe delinquency are some characteristics shown to be related to more serious institutional misconduct (Trulson, 2007).…”

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The Relation Between Aggression and the Living Group Climate in a Forensic Treatment Unit for Adolescents: A Pilot Study

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Helm

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Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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In the current study, the associations between inpatient aggression and the living group climate as perceived by the adolescents admitted to a forensic psychiatric treatment unit, are investigated based on carefully registered longitudinal data. Multilevel regression analyses revealed a significant inverse relation between the number and severity of aggressive incidents and the amount of support, as well as with the possibilities of growth perceived by the adolescents. No significant associations of aggression and the perception of repression or atmosphere are found. Our study reveals preliminary evidence for the relation between the prevalence of aggressive incidents and how the adolescents perceive social contextual factors in daily forensic treatment practices. Moreover, preliminary evidence that evidence-based treatment programs and psychiatric care have an important influence on experienced possibilities for growth and support and as such prevent institutional aggression, is found.

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“…una de las constantes en la literatura de prisiones al discutir los valores culturales de los presos es hasta qué punto surgen en la prisión como respuesta a una problemática planteada por la estructura y el contexto carcelario (Clemmer 1940;Sykes 1958) o si, por el contrario, son un reflejo de los valores que la persona tiene en el exterior e importa al entrar en prisión (Irwin y Cressey 1962;Jacobs 1977). un reflejo de esta discusión es hasta qué punto la prisión causa determinados males o si por el contrario las personas que entran en prisión ya son vulnerables previamente a los mismos.…”

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Percepción de la calidad de vida en prisión. La importancia de una buena organización y un trato digno

2018

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Estudios previos sobre la vida en los centros penitenciarios españoles han tendido a hablar de ‘la’ prisión como una institución con condiciones de encarcelamiento uniformes. Sin embargo, la literatura internacional sugiere que la privación de libertad puede experimentarse de forma muy distinta según el centro penitenciario donde se cumpla condena. Esta investigación analiza si existen distintos tipos de prisión en España, a qué factores son debidas dichas diferencias, cuáles son más relevantes y cuáles son sus implicaciones. Con esta finalidad, hemos administrado el cuestionario Measuring Quality of Prison Life a quinientos presos en cuatro centros penitenciarios de Barcelona. Los resultados de nuestro estudio muestran que la calidad de vida difiere significativamente entre las prisiones analizadas. Estas diferencias, que conllevan importantes consecuencias para las personas presas, no obedecen en exclusiva al historial del interno, sino también, o sobre todo, a la organización del centro y al sistema de relaciones interpersonales existente.

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Thieves, Convicts and the Inmate Culture

Cited by 706 publications

References 6 publications

Attitude is everything: Youth attitudes, gang involvement, and length of institutional gang membership

Attitude is everything: Youth attitudes, gang involvement, and length of institutional gang membership

The Relation Between Aggression and the Living Group Climate in a Forensic Treatment Unit for Adolescents: A Pilot Study

Percepción de la calidad de vida en prisión. La importancia de una buena organización y un trato digno

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