TY - JOUR
T1 - Language, culture, and behavior in prison
T2 - The Israeli case
AU - Einat, Tomer
AU - Wall, April
PY - 2006/12
Y1 - 2006/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Argot
KW - Code of conduct
KW - Inmates
KW - Pains of imprisonment
KW - Subculture
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33947540800&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11417-006-9021-9
DO - 10.1007/s11417-006-9021-9
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AN - SCOPUS:33947540800
SN - 1871-0131
VL - 1
SP - 173
EP - 189
JO - Asian Journal of Criminology
JF - Asian Journal of Criminology
IS - 2
ER -
