EAN: 9783319158709

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN CRIMINOLOGY PRISON TATTOOS ...

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  this is a
significant phenomenon both before and during incarceration. This work examines how despite the
transition to Israel  the main social codes of Russian prisoners are still dominant and help
segregate this group from the larger prison population. It provides a lens to understand
Russian criminal activity in Israel  and in a larger context  the modes of social cohesion and
criminal activity of organized crime groups operating in prison systems. This work will be of
interest to researchers studying the organized crime and the criminal justice system  Russian
organized crime in particular  as well as related studies of immigration  demography  and
social cohesion.

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