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6 Donald Clemmer, The Prison Commu- nity, Re-issued Edition, New York: Rine- hart, 1958, pp. 229-302; Hans Riemer, 'Socialization in the Prison Community,' Proceedings of the American Prison Asso- ciation, 1937, pp. SSee Clarence Schrag, Social Types in a Prison Community, Unpublished M.S. Thesis, University of Washington, 1944. Forty years after the publication of Gresham Sykes's Society of Captives and the second edition of Donald Clemmer's The Prison Community (1958) the incarcerated population in the US, now over 2 million, has grown to an unprecedented size, but paradoxically attention to and concern with the social order of prisons in US academic and political. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. Title: The Prison Community Donald Clemmer 1 The Prison Community Donald Clemmer. CJ 365, Summer 2001; May 30, 2001; 2 Introduction. Prisonization; The process through which an individual will take on the values and mores of the penitentiary; The prison is a world in and of itself; Inmates develop ways in which to modify their behavior to.
Title
An Examination of Donald Clemmer's Concept of Prisonization and Its Role in the Future Development of Penal Policy in the United States
Author
Date of Award
2002
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Criminal Justice
First Advisor
Stephen L. Mallory
Advisor Department
Donald Clemmer Coined The Term
Criminal Justice
Abstract
Donald Clemmer The Prison Community Pdf Online
In The Prison Community (1940; 1958), Donald Clemmer coined the word 'prisonization' and defined it as the process by which the psyches and behaviors of convicts were molded by the social and structural hallmarks of prison life. Clemmer's research, moreover, led him to suggest that prisonization largely confounded the social ideal underlying the penitentiary concept: it not only thwarted attempts to rehabilitate convicts but also inspired behavior that was contrary to accepted standards of social conduct. Clemmer was neither the first nor the last to describe this philosophical flaw in the concept of legal incarceration. Indeed, his assessment of the problem, if not the word he coined to express it, has been a recurring theme in the literature of criminal corrections for well over two hundred years. This dissertation examines that theme, advances the theme that what Clemmer termed 'prisonization' has been the nexus of the problems that have plagued legal incarceration as well as the seed of a majority of modern penal reforms, and argues that the struggle of ex-inmates to 'deprisonize' poses a dire and worsening threat to American society.
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Skype for business mac startup disable. Brown, Jack William, 'An Examination of Donald Clemmer's Concept of Prisonization and Its Role in the Future Development of Penal Policy in the United States' (2002). Dissertation Archive. 1824.
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