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This 6 page paper provides an overview of the basic elements presented in Behind a Convict's Eyes, and applies these to an understanding of prison life. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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that individuals make their bed and must lie in them. In other words, if a person commits a crime, they must pay for what they have done by being
incarcerated. Most of the time, though, it is hard to either picture what happens inside of a prison or recognize that the cycle doesnt end with prison. Most
of the time, criminals do not "learn their lesson" in prison and leave better citizens. After reading Carcerals account in Behind A Convicts Eyes: Doing Time in a Modern Prison,
some of the major misconceptions that the general society has about those in prison can be dispelled. Carcerals views suggest that the criminal justice system is not designed to
teach criminals a lesson and given them skills to enter the world as a new person; instead, prison life teaches criminals how to adapt to prison life in ways that
make them more likely to continue in a life of crime (See Schmid and Jones, 2001). Reading Carcerals account helped me understand the criminal stigmatization and the elements that lend
themselves to continued criminality in a way that I had not viewed them before. Other authors have also maintained this as a central issue, especially when considering the number
of ethnic minorities in the prison system in the modern era. In his work Stigma: Notes on the Management of Soiled Identity, Goffman (1963) argued that some individuals, demonstrate
a propensity for addressing self-identification and the embracing of negative stigma through relationship both with deviants and with individuals within the normative culture. Identification, then, is not simply
a static process through which the bearers are defined as secondary to the "normal" individuals of the larger social collective. In other words, individuals who already have a particular
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