ABSTRACT
Criminalization is seen as one component of prisonization, but the concept is limited to the acquirement of a more criminal perspective. While criminalization generally implies socialization to the inmate criminal subculture, the concept of institutional socialization embodies all of the socialization processes that the inmates undergo at the institutions. To explain how the inmate criminal culture arises, or which factors influence the prisonization process, different analytical methods will be tested, such as ecological and individual correlations, multivariate analysis, and multiple regression analysis. Thus, Wheeler and Cline are among the few institutional researchers who have tried to test different explanatory models for the inmate subculture. The same shift trends are found, though more accentuated, for training schools for boys, youth prisons for boys, and the women’s prison. The prisonization effects, however, are somewhat more powerful within the older groups. The exceptions are training schools for girls and the prison for women.
