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Life in a Total Institution as a Turning Point in the Biographies of Women and Their Children Serving Prison Sentences in the Mother and Child Home in the Correctional Facility in Krzywaniec
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Total institutions are products of modern civilisation. These institutions have always existed although their nature has been changing. According to E. Goffman, an institution of a total nature completely controls the life, habits, time and clothing of people who exist in it. Additionally, its aim is to force its residents to change the axiological system. In order to determine whether the Mother and Child Home in Krzywaniec could be a turning point in the biographies of female prisoners, qualitative research was conducted using the biographical method to specify the details. It makes it possible to better understand the lives of people serving prison sentences and show individual reasons for entering the path of crime. The information gathered during the interviews with women serving prison sentences in the Mother and Child Home indicates that isolation and imprisonment were a turning point in their lives.
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totalitarianism, total institutions, social rehabilitation, methods, biography method, Mother and Child Home, penitentiary institutions, prison, motherhood, childMost read articles by the same author(s)
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