Inmate Argot as an Expression of Prison Subculture: The Israeli Case  

Oleh:

Einat, Tomer ; Einat, Haim

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Prison Journal vol. 80 no. 3 (Sep. 2000), page 309-325.
Topik: argot; jargon; Israeli prisons
Fulltext: 309TPJ803.pdf (81.94KB)

Isi artikel

The study examines the argot (jargon) of prisoners as a reflection of the norms and values comprising the inmate subculture in Israeli prisons. The phenomenological interview method was used to examine the language of a sample of long-term prisoners for the existence of an inmate argot. Having established that such an argot does exist, the data were subjected to a content analysis, and the salience of the argot terms was assessed using two measures, attention and intensity. The argot expressions were divided into categories with reference to different aspects of prison experience: prisoner status (informers, inmate rank), drugs, sexual relations in prison, violence, prisoner behaviors, nicknames for police officers, and prison staff.

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