Language, Culture, and Behavior in Prison: The Israeli Case |
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| Authors: | Tomer Einat April Wall |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Haifa University and the Yezreel Valley Academic College, 13 Emek Dotan St., Modiin, 71700, Israel;(2) Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, The University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA |
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| Abstract: | The current study describes the everyday life of Israeli prisoners and analyzes the actions they perform and the language they use as a reflection of their constraints, distresses, worldviews, beliefs, and attitudes. Data were subjected to a content analysis, and the salience of the values, norms and argot terms were assessed using two measures, attention and intensity. The inmates’ values and norms and the argot expressions were divided into categories with reference to different aspects of prison experience: prisoners’ adherence to the code, inmates’ interpersonal loyalty, sexual behavior in prison, drugs, violence and miscellaneous. |
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| Keywords: | Argot Code of conduct Inmates Pains of imprisonment Subculture |
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