Prison Tattoos A Study of Russian Inmates in Israel
This Brief studies the important role that tattoos play in prison culture, and examines its unique manifestation among minority inmates. This work aims to provide a better understanding of prison group culture, particularly among social marginal groups, t
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Efrat Shoham
Prison Tattoos A Study of Russian Inmates in Israel
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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Efrat Shoham
Prison Tattoos A Study of Russian Inmates in Israel
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Efrat Shoham Department of Criminology Ashkelon Academic College Ashkelon Israel
ISSN 2192-8533 SpringerBriefs in Criminology ISBN 978-3-319-15870-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15871-6
ISSN 2192-8541 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-15871-6
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Acknowledgments
I wish to thank Ashkelon Academic College, my academic home, for granting me the time to study and write this book, as well as providing me with the financial support needed to prepare it for publication. In addition, I wish to thank my student, Sharon Tzeichner-Azulai, for her fantastic contribution to collecting the material for this book. I would also like to thank the Israeli Prison Services intelligence officers, for their cooperation, and for teaching me to speak the language of tattoos, even if I gained only a partial understanding of that complex and rich phenomenon. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to my husband, for his trust, support, and concern during the long days that I spent trying to decipher the language of former Soviet prisoners in Israeli prisons, and for his amazing help with illustrating the tattoos depicted in this book.
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Contents
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The Inmates Community. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Criminal Subculture Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Hierarchy of Classes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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