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This 10 page paper discusses the ways in which life inside prison has its own culture and traditions. Levels of analysis are discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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in the prison society are deviants from the norm in many respects, there are facets to the subculture of a prison society that differ. Two videos/documentaries, Maximum Insecurity and Prisoners
of Rikers Island example the social hierarchy within the typical prison system and suggest that rules and observing these roles can be viewed as crucial to understanding human social organization
and actions. In a typical human society there exists the upper class, the middle class, the lower class, and the deviant subcultures. Within the prison society such structures also exist.
Those familiar with prison life say that the most violent inmates, even murderers, typically occupy the upper rungs of a prisons social caste, while criminals who have attacked children and
the elderly, or who exhibit psychological disorders, struggle desperately to survive at the bottom. These who are considered crazy or those who are pedophiles/elder abusers, would equate to the lower
class and deviant subculture in normal society. Those who maintain their position in a prison hierarchy are generally those who have been the strongest, the best connected to the powerful
and who have the ability to show no fear, no weakness, and the proclivity to back up their threats. On the opposite side of this spectrum are those who are
considered weak and pathetic. In particular, those who are pedophiles stand a very real chance of being killed, maimed, raped and sexually assaulted, because they are perceived as having chosen
for their victims people who were too young or too old to fight. In other words, these criminals have not proven their strength because they did not have to use
it against a worthy opponent. Social status may be improved by capping someone in the lower strata of the prison society, as if killing or abusing those in the
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