PHIL 230 Study Guide - Final Guide: Erving Goffman, Subculture, Prison Officer
Document Summary
Enclosed facilities socially and physically isolated from society. Inhabitants share all aspects of life on daily basis. Institutionalize inhabitants: dehumanization -> work against rehabilitation/reintegration. Unique social code of unwritten rules that dictate inmate behavior and interaction with staff: don"t interfere with other inmate"s interests (sellout, don"t lose your head (masculinity, don"t break your work, don"t weaken, don"t be a sucker. Canadian prison population highest in august 2012: 15097 inmates in federal prisons: increased since 2005, 7:1 incarceration -> us (700/100,000): canada (110/100,000) Double bunking = housing more people in cells than capacity. Population grown 7% between march 2011 and may 2012. Royal commission: the [canadian] justice system has failed aboriginal people . Over represented in provincial and federal correctional facilities: (2006) 2. 7% of adult population, 18. 5% of offenders with federal offences, continuation of historic relations of colonization and racial discrimination, urban environments too impoverished, marginalized spaces. Institution of segregation -> affect contemporary systems of inequality.
