Project

Prison culture, drug use and drug traffic within 3 Flemish prisons

Code
3G008609
Duration
01 January 2009 → 30 December 2012
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Criminology
    • Social and cultural anthropology
Keywords
drug traffic drug use coping strategy in-depth interviews prison adaptation style prisoner culture
 
Project description

This qualitative research wants to examine the role and meaning of (both legal and illegal) drug use and drug trafficking in the prison as an adaptation style or coping strategies of prisoners. We also examine the individual characteristics of detainees, the influence of contextual factors and the presence of a 'prisoner culture'.