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Efrat Shoham

Prison Tattoos

A Study of Russian Inmates in Israel

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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, through the lens of Russian immigrants in Israeli prisons. Russian immigrants currently represent approximately 25% of the total Israeli prison population, and this book examines how tattoos show an important form of rebellion amongst this group. As tattoos are forbidden in some forms of Islam and Judaism, and the Israeli prison service confiscates over 200 homemade tattoo devices per year, th… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-319-15871-6
  • EAN: 9783319158716
  • Produktnummer: 18252618
  • Verlag: Springer
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 3'895 KB

Über den Autor


Prof. Efrat Shoham is a senior criminologist in Ashkelon Academic College, Israel. She is chairperson of the Israeli Society of Criminology, and the research committee of the Israeli Prisoners Rehabilitation Authority. As well, she is director of the Sha'am Institute for Research on the Reintegration of released Prisoners in the Community, and co-editor of the Israeli Criminology journal.  Over the last decade Prof. Shoham has published many articles on social control and criminal behavior in segregated communities, as well as on rehabilitation of released prisoners and policing of domestic violence. Some of her recent books are: The Dark Side of the Sun:  Social Control and Deviance in total Institutions; False Convictions in Israel; Supervision of Sex Offenders: Treatment or Punishment; Cults, Violence and Sex: The social Construction of Deviance in post-modern Israel ; and Glimpse behind the Walls.  

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