| 释义 |
prisonize, v.|ˈprɪz(ə)naɪz|
[f. prison n. + -ize.]
trans. To cause (a person) to adapt himself to prison life. Chiefly in pass.: to adapt to the attitudes and social behaviour of prison life, esp. at the expense of one's ‘normal’ personality. Hence ˌprisoniˈzation, the fact or process of becoming adapted to prison life and unfitted for the outside world.
1940D. Clemmer Prison Community xii. 299 As we use the term Americanization to describe a greater or less degree of the immigrant's integration into the American scheme of life, we may use the term prisonization to indicate the taking on in greater or less degree of the folk⁓ways, mores, customs, and general culture of the penitentiary. Ibid. 300 First offenders..‘wise up’, as the inmates say, or in other words, by association they become prisonized. 1963T. & P. Morris Pentonville vii. 169 Prisonization may be defined as the continuous and systematic destruction of the psyche in consequence of the experience of imprisonment, and the adoption of new attitudes and ways of behaving..which may frequently make it impossible for the individual to act successfully in any normal social role. Ibid. 170 While the majority of inmates become ‘prisonized’ in some aspects, few are wholly prisonized. Ibid., A certain type of prisonized man whose behaviour forms the hard core of inmate subculture. 1972E. Heffernan Making it in Prison i. 7 The ‘outlaw’ has been found to be the most highly ‘prisonized’ in terms of loyalty to the inmate code. Ibid. ii. 32 If any category may be considered ‘new’ to prisonization, it is the professional, with shorter sentence length..and fewer total years in an institutional atmosphere. 1973Cull & Hardy Fund. Criminal Behavior & Correctional Syst. viii. 147 He found that those inmates who were farthest from release..were the most prisonized. 1975D. Duffee Correctional Policy & Prison Organization iii. 35 The counter-suggestion was made that prisonization is just an institutional form of deprivation felt by the lower class, uneducated, and black offenders most of their lives. |