Citation

de Almeida OL, Paes-Machado E. Aust. N. Zeal. J. Criminol. 2015; 48(2): 175-199.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0004865814545683

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper discusses the victimization patterns of inmates of the largest prison unit of Bahia. It uses data from a screening survey with 591 participants, which culminated in 107 semistructured interviews and direct observation. The study demonstrates that 54.3% of inmates report some type of material, physical, and psychological victimization. It asserts that those patterns are structured by institutional violence, jail arrangements, and criminal gangs in the prison. It also demonstrates the influence of the availability of economic, cultural, and social capital in the levels of vulnerability. It concludes that the drama of inmate victimization is a key to understand the dynamics of a prison system that is more dystopian than we can imagine.

Language: en