the basis of the informal code of conduct are developed by the centuries-old experience of illegal activity antisocial traditions and customs.Specific content is playing traditions from one generation to the representatives of subcultural formations operating principles and concepts of ideals, fixing the accumulated experience of anti-social.The experience of such subcultural environment - a legacy habitual way of unlawful behavior face in a certain situation, the expected and supported by members of subcultural groups.The regulatory function is inherent and other elements of the subculture, but the customs and traditions - the most stable forms of regulation of behavior.In today's article we will discuss the topic "The criminal subculture."
They, being the product of subcultural activities closely linked primarily to the antisocial orientations, habits and lifestyle of the individual.On the one hand, these phenomena contribute to their formation.While most people consider their free will, he is deceiving himself.The outside world, the people among whom he lives, manners and customs act on it before he knows anything, they impose their views on human fingerprints.On the other hand, if the individual anti-social habits (for example, lead a parasitic life, play cards) under certain conditions develop into a mandatory code of conduct of criminal elements, then they eventually acquire the force of traditions and customs that are the backbone of the so-called "natural laws".Ukazannye phenomena offenders come from the community as a whole and its members contribute to instilling a sense of duty, resist individualism, fixed hierarchical relationships in the criminal environment.Individuals included in such a group, have a sense of duty towards the group and have a duty based on the requirements of the principles of conduct.Recent define a common group strategy.Each member of the sub-cultural group performs its role in it.Asocial group always expects from a representative of certain actions in a given situation.
In other words, a person's behavior in the formation of subcultural largely becomes a behavior group."Moral laws" offenders are protected not only by force of opinion (as in other communities of people), but also a physical, often sophisticated violence against persons who violated them.For representatives of certain subcultural groups characterized by rituals "oaths" and "sworn" criminal community, as well as the ritual of "checking" a member of the newly adopted criminal education.Those who came as "equal" in the subcultural environment is not always free to get out of it.For example, a person who has received the status of "the credibility of the criminal world," has no right to leave the criminal community, he can stop the subcultural activities ("go to the Company") only with the consent of the environment.Elements subculture serving the same anti-social aims and ideals, they support each other, forming a solid chain of distorted value orientations.Their antisocial nature follows from the content and function of the criminal system and manifests itself in the fact that the dominant influence on the formation of a special subculture offender.
process of de-socialization of man involves mastering them, attitudes to life and the values that exist in the group.His personal experience of criminal experience is complemented by his entourage.The most important feature is the presence of such a person in her anti-social beliefs, negative attitude to the existing norms of morality and law.Thus, the criminal subculture is a kind of interpersonal relationship habitual offenders in a relatively closed environment, based on their system of distorted value orientations that serve regulatory principles of the joint conduct of the illegal activity and anti-social lifestyle.The convicts while serving prison sentence learn the habits and behavior patterns, get used to the idea that they are essentially refused, like the rest of their companions, and values shared and learned from other criminals, are important for them.As a result, a neutral perception of value is transformed into a prison subculture forced solidarity related to its support, which inevitably results in the majority of those sentenced to community opposition.
If keepers criminal subculture ("authorities") deny common moral values of society, the neutral "hard workers" support the family and other social values, conscientious attitude to work.The values of the community, with which a person identifies himself with the greatest strength, ensuring consistent behavior.Deviations leader in the behavior of corporate standards will inevitably lead to the loss of them their status.Being active carriers of subcultural values, considered the type of offenders is strictly guarded by them, and in some cases corrects.Leaders always a desire to consolidate its hierarchical success, to protect it through the introduction of "ethical" structure grouping some new principles.On the one hand, the inner circle, like any hierarchical level, unwittingly serves as the rise of the leader, the assertion of his authority, and on the other - the leading core of being a mouthpiece of the common sentiments and opinions, constrains the leader when it seeks to unlimited power, goes beyond the ordinaryrules of conduct."Authority" in the group provide a consolidating, protecting and morally supported functions.Consolidating function is to promote and strengthen the standards of conduct aimed at promoting the values of "we" in the sub-cultural environment, in promoting relations of equality.From the point of view of psychology, "authority" convince other members of the group that the most equitable relations of equality are supported in their world, not in society.
In the eyes of members of non-formal education, they, being the bearers of justice, capable of solving complex and often conflicting situations in the community.Their decisions are always substantiated corporate ethics, so the value of compulsory purchase.The basis of the informal division of convicts into categories based on real relationships between them, which, in turn, are based on the subculture of "prison community.""Authorities" do not cover all the convicts, but they are the most dangerous offenders that their illegal and immoral activities trying its influence on the weight of the condemned.Saving certain forms of relationship in the world "blatarey" allows them to develop a unified group strategy, due to their value orientations, and retreat from it any of the members of the group are almost always fraught with grave consequences.When workers lose the thread of Corrections process control unit, "authorities" take on the role of "defenders of justice."The rest of the prisoners as if they delegate this right, bringing "blatari" become heralds of their senses and enjoy their support.Such development of the situation helps them to carry out distribution among the persons serving sentences, subcultural rules and demand their strict observance.Groups "authorities" criminal environment in prisons have a traditional organizational structure.
They form a closed "caste" is different from all other groups of its totalitarian organization and a single unlawful course of action.These qualities are due to the criminal subculture, which the author calls the "counter-culture", because it is opposed in principle to generally accepted moral values in society."Authorities" means that if the initiative for the establishment of interpersonal relationships will take over the administration of correctional institutions, their role in an informal environment convicted greatly reduced.Every human activity, including antisocial, has its heroes, which imitate the followers.Each generation produces people from the past representations of the ideal - it's a tradition of all social groups.The private life of a person projects himself into the future - as their ideal, as a model of the desired future.Something similar happens in the criminal environment in which criminal elements from different generations have formed their ideal.A popular hero and role model at the criminal persons in the second half of the twentieth century.He became a "thief" ("thief in law")."Thief" - a man crystal soul, strictly following "thieves' law" and dedicated his life to "the ideals of thieves."Recognize the "thief" can only be based on the decision, "gatherings", "congress".As a rule, the candidate took a long trial and only after that he was given the recommendation "authorities" criminal environment, confirming that the received "a certain quality and merit" and that "his behavior and aspirations thieves meet the standards of ethics."
Persons to recommend a beginner to the community bore responsibility for his subsequent behavior.All host must ensure that the candidate will be able to comply with the "law".Rite to begin receiving the included rituals "Coronation Thieves" and vows not to violate the prisoner's "code of honor".Traitors waited harsh reprisals.For examples of such individuals are educated young persons serving a sentence.They are attracted by the illusion of independence of this world, obedience to him the other.In prison, the youth learns strict "ethics thug life."Each member of the group in a relationship with each other to be honest, fair, should not lie.If you himself embarrass, for example, was caught red-handed in the act, there is no point to the guilt of the other accomplices.This also manifests your honesty as a prisoner: in relation to their you have to be honest, but in relation to other justified any cheating, any bloody violence.The antisocial nature "thieves ethics" is manifested primarily in the fact that it is a fixer and a conductor some experience of previous generations of criminals, maintaining the original orientation of the habitual offenders to conduct a parasitic lifestyle.Each generation of "authorities" criminal environment with the need to borrow a number of stable anti-social attitudes, distorted values of the past.In a sense, they choose not only your future but also the past: it is the commission of crimes, and instead of a normal life - an antisocial lifestyle.If other categories of persons who are serving, subordinate only "thieves ethics" to secure normal coexistence in the environment or to earn the respect of "thieves", the "authorities" feel reverence for the traditions of his duty.The traditions form the inner world of the habitual criminal, customs, in turn, send it in real life, imposing a taboo on one and allowing the other.Just creating and reviving the tradition of good, proven for centuries, it is possible to create a powerful barrier to the spread of "thieves ethics.""The criminal correct only on the basis created for him a positive value orientations."
Currently, the "authority", multiplied by the large amount of money, turned the head of the new "thieves" who openly began to commit extortion, violence.Once in the IUT, not knowing where particularly complex relations, they derogate from the "thieves ethics" - engaged in outright extortion, harassment conviction that led to the bulk of discontent and loss of purchased "authority".Traditional "thieves" have not recognized their subcultural "titles", and denounced those of his comrades who took part in the "coronation" extortionists.Thus, in the underworld on the basis of "ethical" disagreements arose conflicts.Russia came to the structure of crime, common to all countries with market economies.Subcultural credibility is now supported not so much commitment to the criminal community traditions and customs, as the size of the "shadow capital" available to it.It would be wrong to talk about the leveling of distorted value orientations among habitual offenders."Some rules, traditions, customs and interpersonal communication have changed, but their functions are preserved."
