From Gangs to jail: the experience of imprisonment. The essay starts from the experience of conflict negotiation among members of youth gangs, originally from Latin America. The field of research moves form the youth experience of jail and tries to explore the different dimensions of agencies performed by the inmates, considering them as active subjects, not only as a victim of a criminalizing system against migrants. One of the strategies to access the field is the mix of ethnography and visual sociology skills. The use of camera allows the researchers to connect to the everyday life of gang member spread inside and outside of the prison. Following Erving Goffman suggestions on secondary adaptations inside a total institutions, we introduce three categories of inmate agency: jail as a project, as a home making, as a parenthesis.
Dalle gang al carcere: vissuti della detenzione
QUEIROLO PALMAS, LUCA GIUSEPPE;ODDONE, CRISTINA
2011-01-01
Abstract
From Gangs to jail: the experience of imprisonment. The essay starts from the experience of conflict negotiation among members of youth gangs, originally from Latin America. The field of research moves form the youth experience of jail and tries to explore the different dimensions of agencies performed by the inmates, considering them as active subjects, not only as a victim of a criminalizing system against migrants. One of the strategies to access the field is the mix of ethnography and visual sociology skills. The use of camera allows the researchers to connect to the everyday life of gang member spread inside and outside of the prison. Following Erving Goffman suggestions on secondary adaptations inside a total institutions, we introduce three categories of inmate agency: jail as a project, as a home making, as a parenthesis.
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