CRI491H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Argot, Panopticon, Psychological Warfare
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1) total power in prisons is a myth. 2) pains of imprisonment shape experience of imprisonment, shape way prisoner society is shaped. 3) argot roles map of social relations in prison. Through roles, language they use to name things can describe the way prisoners react to pains of imprisonment. Prison w/ own way of delivering suffering. Not same for every person in same prison, different prisons, etc. Asking for more grounded research documenting way diff pains are suffered in more detail. Can stay with generality but prison experience can be painful in specific reasons for specific people in specific places. Modern penal practices shape prison experience. Prisons are still painful, but they aren"t as painful as before (physical abuse) . Not really true prisons can be painful at different levels/layers. Surface of pain may change, but nature of pain stays. Also consider some prisons outside of new jersey during sykes" time .
