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Inmates on Sports-Related Leaves: a Decisive Experience
Author(s) -
Laurent Gras
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
champ pénal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1777-5272
DOI - 10.4000/champpenal.234
Subject(s) - humanities , political science , prison , philosophy , law
L’objet de cet article est de traiter des permissions de sortir sportives délivrées en prison et d’analyser les interrogations que ces sorties posent aux détenus qui en bénéficient. L’attention portée au déroulement de ces opérations permet effectivement d’observer que, derrière l’objectif initial de la sortie sportive, définie par la compétitivité et le partage de valeurs sportives, survient un autre enjeu, plus crucial, relatif à la gestion de leur statut stigmatisant et à la légitimité de leur présence dans la place sociale. The object of this paper is to discuss sports-related prison leaves, and to analyze the questions these outings raise for those inmates to whom they are granted. Observation of these operations shows that behind the original goal of the sports outing, which is to compete and to share sporting values, another, more crucial stake emerges, having to do with the way they deal with their stigmatizing status, and with the legitimacy of their presence in social events. Full Tex

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