Sociology 2256A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Prison Gang, Homicide, Erving Goffman
8 Dec 2016
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Tougher time being served on remand, less programming: they spend most of time in unit. no programming, treatment, etc over the past 10 years, more and more inmates are doing harder time in canada. Deprivation theory: prisons are negative places with privations in icted on inmates that create destructive attitudes and behaviours, and oppositional inmate subculture. They are part of a code that supports illicit activity. During this they experience pains of imprisonment: lose their autonomy in decision making, privacy, safety, access to sexual relations, and access to material goods. Importation theory: (john irwin) - posits that individuals who enter prison, by and large, already possess anti-social behaviours and attitudes; the inmate subculture and predatory oppositional behaviours simply re ect a pre-existing offender subculture. They already possess these attitudes from their community outside prison. Deep freeze hypothesis: prisons do little to hurt offenders or help them. they merely do their time with no real deterioration or improvement.
