Social Structure and Anomie in Detention Facilities: Ways of Convict’s Social Adaptation in Modern Russian Prisons

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10.2991/aer.k.200202.066How to use a DOI?

Keywords

penitentiary system, social adaptation, convicted, deviation, prison subculture

Abstract

Based on the methodology of R. Merton, which is expounded in his work “Social Structure and Anomie”, we have analyzed the main types of convicts’ adjustment to detention facilities. The article describes the behavior patterns of convicts, reveals the motivation of behavior of various informal groups existing in prisons, as well as behavioral and group attitudes of convicted and their determinants. The results of a sociological study undertaken in places of deprivation of liberty allowed us to reveal the prevailing types of social adaptation of convicted in prisons.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Alexei Kombaev
AU  - Timur Badmatsyrenov
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/08
TI  - Social Structure and Anomie in Detention Facilities: Ways of Convict’s Social Adaptation in Modern Russian Prisons
BT  - Proceedings of the IV International Scientific and Practical Conference 'Anthropogenic Transformation of Geospace: Nature, Economy, Society' (ATG 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 326
EP  - 330
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aer.k.200202.066
DO  - 10.2991/aer.k.200202.066
ID  - Kombaev2020
ER  -