Overview
- Explores the role of tattoos in prison culture and its unique manifestation among immigrant minorities
- Provides a theoretical framework for understanding immigrant assimilation versus segregation
- Examines social control in prison populations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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".
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prison Tattoos
Book Subtitle: A Study of Russian Inmates in Israel
Authors: Efrat Shoham
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Criminology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15871-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15870-9Published: 25 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15871-6Published: 10 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2192-8533
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8541
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 110
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Demography