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Prisonization

Corrections and Institutional Life

The process by which a person confined in prison takes on, to a greater or lesser degree, the folkways, customs and general culture of the penitentiary. The sociologist Donald Clemmer introduced the term in his 1940 study of Menard Correctional Center, arguing that the degree to which an inmate is prisonized varies with how deeply the inmate participates in the prison's own social groups, and that a highly prisonized inmate finds readjustment to life outside prison correspondingly harder. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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A heavily prisonized inmate's adaptation to the prison's own culture works against the aims of rehabilitation on release.

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taking on, in a greater or lesser degree, the folkways, mores, customs and general culture of the penitentiary
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Prisonization is the process of accepting the culture and social life of prison society.
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