In:
Criminologie, Consortium Erudit, Vol. 36, No. 2 ( 2004-04-05), p. 105-125
Abstract:
In France, for the last twenty years, opening up dynamics of prisons on their environment has been emphasising. By means of an increasing offer of activities, the staff of the prison authority seeks more and more social partners allowing them to participate to their mission of reintegration. Among these activities, sports hold a very particular position. Through its ability to align spontaneously the behaviours on a pre- established physical, statutory and ritual language, the match among prisoners and « free » sportsmen actually establishes an incomparable association between « regular » and « stigmatised » people even though each of them slightly dreads the greeting which the other one holds for him. This event being based on common normative foundations, it can extract the prison stigma normally linked to the representations of the prison and the prisoners. Furthermore, during the after match period, the sports interactions slide gradually towards that of a social interaction in which the prisoner can be recognised in his human magnitude. The match hence allows the prisoner to learn to handle its « selfdom deficiency ».
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1492-1367
,
0316-0041
Language:
French
Publisher:
Consortium Erudit
Publication Date:
2004
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2126751-0
SSG:
2,1
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