Is prison violent for itself? Violence and legitimation of institutional dynamics in the “Centro de Formación Juvenil Zurquí”, Heredia, Costa Rica

 

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Autor: Araya-Pérez, Mario
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2016
Descripción:The following article aims to understand violence in the Zurquí Juvenile Training Centre as an emergent set of relations established by the different actors involved in the daily running of this. Actors, which are mutually involved in the process of establishing a prison environment where everyone has a place and sense. The research was developed from a qualitative methodology consisted of a direct fieldwork in the living spaces of the population, for a period of eight months during 2015 and divided into three phases. It was possible to determine the involvement of different actors in the exercise of various manifestations of violence towards the fictionalization of the person in the prison environment, which enables display a certain regularity in the values, attitudes and behaviors to remain embedded in social dynamics and therefore ensure their survival, both material and symbolic in that context. The research concludes that the production and reproduction of violence is the process by which the position of the actors involved is legitimized, while the function of the penitentiary institution in general society.
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/25196
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/antropologia/article/view/25196
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Agresividad
gregario
prisión
sociabilidad
privados de libertad
Aggressiveness
gregarious
prison
sociability
deprived of their liberty