Prisonization and/or Criminalization? Some Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Findings

Papp, Gábor (2012) Prisonization and/or Criminalization? Some Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Findings. Hungarian Statistical Review, 90 (SN16). pp. 46-66. ISSN 0039-0690

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Abstract

The study focuses on the correlations between criminalization and prisonization. On the grounds of earlier works, it shows that these two phenomena can be very hard to be separated from each other at theoretical level; they partly overlap. The empirical part of the article is based on a research conducted in a Hungarian medium- and maximum-security prison in the spring of 2010. It attempts to find the answers to the questions whether some attitudinal indicators of criminality and the nonconformity toward the staff expectations (as a frequently used indicator of the prisonization) are associated with one another or not; and if so, to what extent. The study also investigates whether criminality and prisonization can be related to the same factors, which may indicate the non-separable nature of the two concepts at the empirical level as well.

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