CRM 2306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Argot, Masculinity, Hypermasculinity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2306
• Professor: Kate Fletcher

Document Summary

Manufactured protective self (ex. not visiting with family members so you are less vulnerable) vs self of new rehabilitationism (ex. They want you to be more open and such but they put up barriers like non-contact visits). Youth said often that non-contact visits caused despair, loneliness and it made it seem like they were being teased. Some didn"t even want visits because of these feelings. Continuum of deprivation: they have been deprived in the outside world as well as inside the prison. Custody confirms offender self-identity (import and export): the identity of offender, they know they won"t be able to get rid of the criminal identity, they become the identity because they know they will never escape it. Prisoners are importing into prison with them the knowledge that they have been deprived of things that others have access to on the outside. Custody confirms that people are offenders that have made bad choices.