96469 - SOCIOLOGIA DEL CARCERE

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students will know the theoretical and methodological frameworks of prison studies, with specific reference to analysis and researches in the field of the sociology of total institutions and prisons. Students will develop the ability of comparing legal and sociological perspectives on detention, its criteria of legitimization and its material contents.

Course contents

The program is articulated in 4 parts, 12 hours of lesson each:

1. PENOLOGY AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN PRISON

   -The prison between substantial functions and criteria of legitimization

   -Institutional pain and the transformation of the subject

   -Carceral circuits and organization

   -Formal and informal regulation in prison

   -Prison system articulation and carceral individualism

2. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF THE SOCIO-CRIMINOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN PRISON

   -Prison and social representations

   -Critical analysis of statistical dato on imprisonment

   -Detention, ethnography and qualitative research

   -Prison staff as a subject of sociological analysis

   -Prison monitoring and rights of the inmates

   -The perspectives of Convict Criminology

3. THE PROCESS OF PRISONIZATION AND THE SOCIAL ACTORS INVOLVED

   -The inmates' world: deprivation and importation models

   -Institutional adaptation: disculturation and acculturation

   -The carceral field of social interactions

   -Prison as configuration (conflicts, cooperation and co-govern)

   -The multi-ethnic prison

   -Prison radicalization

4. INSTITUTIONAL CULTURES AND PERSPECTIVES OF TRANSFORMATION

-Legal and professional cultures in prison

-Prison subcultures and institutional cultures

-Surveillance and treatment

-Prison and health questions

-Prison adaptation and recidivism

-Minimalism and abolitionism

Readings/Bibliography

FOR THE STUDENTS ATTENDING CLASSES:

-Classroom notes

-F. Vianello, Sociologia del carcere: un'introduzione, Carocci 2019

-a reading to choose among the following (other options to discuss via e-mail with the teacher):

-D. Ronco, A. Sbraccia, V. Verdolini (eds), La violenza penale: conflitti, abusi e resistenze nello spazio penitenziario, numero monografico della rivista "Antigone" 2\2020 (downolad: https://www.antigone.it/rivista/)

-E. Kalica, S. Santorso, Farsi la galera: spazi e culture del penitenziario, OmbreCorte 2018

-G. Torrente, Le regole della galera: pratiche penitenziarie, educatori e processi di criminalizzazione, L'Harmattan Italia, 2018

-D. Ronco, Cura sotto controllo: il diritto alla salute in carcere, Carocci, 2018

-A. Sbraccia, V. Verdolini (eds), Islam e radicalizzazione: processi sociali e percorsi penitenziari, numero monografico della rivista "Antigone" 1\2017 (download: https://www.antigone.it/rivista-archivio/Antigone_1-2017.pdf)

-A. Sbraccia, F. Vianello (eds), La ricerca qualitativa in carcere in Italia, numero monografico della rivista "Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa", 2\2016 (download dei contributi accessibile nelle risorse elettroniche delle riviste della biblioteca di ateneo)

-E. Santoro, Carcere e società liberale, Giappichelli 2004

FOR THE STUDENTS NOT ATTENDING CLASSES:

-F. Vianello, Sociologia del carcere: un'introduzione, Carocci 2019

-E. Kalica, S. Santorso, Farsi la galera: spazi e culture del penitenziario, OmbreCorte 2018

-a reading to choose among the following (other options to discuss via e-mail with the teacher):

-G. Torrente, Le regole della galera: pratiche penitenziarie, educatori e processi di criminalizzazione, L'Harmattan Italia, 2018

-D. Ronco, Cura sotto controllo: il diritto alla salute in carcere, Carocci, 2018

-E. Santoro, Carcere e società liberale, Giappichelli 2004

 

Teaching methods

-lectures

-seminars

-workshops

Assessment methods

ORAL EXAM (no differences for erasmus students)

By way of example, the following criteria will be used to assess the final mark (that will be out of 30/30):

- sufficient or barely sufficient knowledge on the programme, limited reasoning ability, some difficulties in using socio-criminological language → 18-21/30;

- fairly good knowledge of the programme, adequate critical reasoning ability, sound use of socio-criminological language → 22-25/30;

- comprehensive knowledge of the programme, notable reasoning ability, good command of socio-criminological language → 26-29/30;

- extensive knowledge of the programme, very good reasoning ability, and ability to fully master socio-criminological language → 30-30L/30.

Teaching tools

documentaries

Office hours

See the website of Alvise Sbraccia