PUBLIC ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS THE IMPRISONMENT

PUBLIC ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS THE IMPRISONMENT

Imprisonment is one of the main strategies of crime control and prevention. Yet, its specific aims and ends have generated numerous debates among philosophers, moralists, sociologists, penologists etc. These debates revealed that confinement in closed institutions is conducive to various forms of “...

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Main Authors: DAN BANCIU, CRISTINA DÂMBOEANU, MIHAELA PUŞCAŞ
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Romanian Academy 2016-08-01
Series:Revista Română de Sociologie
Online Access:http://revistadesociologie.ro/en/sites/default/files/03-banciu.pdf
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spelling doaj-c0c51e8c9a444066a66eb1116bc1cddd2020-11-24T23:11:24ZengRomanian AcademyRevista Română de Sociologie1224-92622016-08-013-4/2016191225PUBLIC ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS THE IMPRISONMENTDAN BANCIU0CRISTINA DÂMBOEANU1MIHAELA PUŞCAŞ2Senior Researcher Institute of Sociology, Romanian AcademySenior Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Romanian AcademyDirection of Penitentiars, BucharestImprisonment is one of the main strategies of crime control and prevention. Yet, its specific aims and ends have generated numerous debates among philosophers, moralists, sociologists, penologists etc. These debates revealed that confinement in closed institutions is conducive to various forms of “deculturation” (Goffman, 2004) as well as to the reiteration of criminal behaviour. In the same time, imprisonment has raised vast concerns among citizens about public safety and the “humanization” of prison conditions. The current paper attempts to radiograph the attitudes, the opinions and the evaluations of the Romanian public towards prison and imprisonment and to identify solutions for optimizing its functionalityhttp://revistadesociologie.ro/en/sites/default/files/03-banciu.pdf
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description Imprisonment is one of the main strategies of crime control and prevention. Yet, its specific aims and ends have generated numerous debates among philosophers, moralists, sociologists, penologists etc. These debates revealed that confinement in closed institutions is conducive to various forms of “deculturation” (Goffman, 2004) as well as to the reiteration of criminal behaviour. In the same time, imprisonment has raised vast concerns among citizens about public safety and the “humanization” of prison conditions. The current paper attempts to radiograph the attitudes, the opinions and the evaluations of the Romanian public towards prison and imprisonment and to identify solutions for optimizing its functionality
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