Libertate. Detenţie. Viaţă socială. Despre contradicţia dintre 2 tipuri fundamentale de raţionalitate, ca sursă a ineficienţei pedepsei cu închisoarea

• Main Author: Petronel Dobrică
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Expert Projects 2008-03-01
• Series: Sociologie Românească
• Subjects: total institution; deculturation; resocialization; coercitive power
• Online Access: https://arsociologie.ro/revistasociologieromaneasca/sr/article/view/206

Using the theoretical references of Goffman’s theory of the total institutions, this article deals with the fundamental contradiction issue with two types of rationality which settles the lives of individuals in different ways, according to their life abridged of freedom status. This contradiction underlain in respect with the produced effects over life abridged of freedom people marks the condemned people’s line from the moment of their entrance in the penitentiary until the freedom time of their release outside the prison walls conditioning the prison punishment social effects and justification.