Por detrás das grades, estudo sobre recinto prisional como espaço socialmente dinâmico: caso da cadeia de máxima segurança

Abstract

The ways that many societies use to correct behaviors or practices considered deviant in societies are reclusion and deprivation of liberty. It is expected that after prison the person has been resocialized and developed a behavior that is in conformity with how others behave. This monograph focuses on the subject and presents an approach that seeks to understand the prison precincts as a socially dynamic space. With focus for the analysis of the Maputo Maximum Security ( known as B.O.), the problem parts from assumption that the prison is a space where individuals develop relationships and social interactions that cause them to adopt certain lifestyles, forming networks and groups to join in that space. Thus, the empirical data show that there are many dynamics that formed in jail and that the fact that the prisoner is devoid of contact with outside subject to adopts contingency measures to integrate and survive in jail. The conclusion reached is that the prison precincts comprises social dynamics that result of relations between the prisoners, as well as relations between the prisoners and the prison administration staff precincts. Theoretically, the search relies on the approach of Goffman (1974) about total institutions. The concepts are defined social institution, resocialization, social network and prison. The methodology applied to hypothetical-deductive approach, monographic procedure and some techniques such as interviews, observation and literature review