Doing Time
Subtitle: Prison Experience and Identity Among First-Time Inmates (Contemporary Ethnographic Studies)
Contributors: R.S. Jones (Editor); T.J. Schmid (Editor)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: May 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780762305438
Subjects: Prisons; Sociology; Imprisonment; Criminal Psychology; United States; Social Science; Prisoners; Penology; Criminal Law - General; Sociology - General; Law-Criminal Law - General; Social Science / Penology; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science-Sociology - General; Attitudes; Archaeology; Clinical Psychology; Prison psychology
First sentence: A person who begins a prison sentence does in fact enter a "social world" (Unruh 1980; Strauss 1978; Shibutani 1955) that is organized differently and centered around a different culture than the everyday world left behind-a passage that is acknowledged by the prison culture distinction between the world of "the joint" and the outside "free world."