Pain During Incarceration: Searching for Safety in Hypermasculine Correctional Settings.

Duncan Stewart MacLennan, Gerri Lasiuk, Diane Kunyk, Maria Mayan
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Abstract

Introduction: Hypermasculine prison culture produces hierarchies based on individuals' ability to assert dominance through strength and violence. Pain can impact physical strength, thereby limiting the ability to elevate or maintain social status within such hierarchies.

Aim: The aim of the study was to explore the pain experiences of incarcerated men who were embedded into hypermasculine prison culture.

Methods: Interpretive description co-positioned with relational ethics informed the study design. Twelve males participated in 1-hour interviews, which were transcribed verbatim and analyzed inductively to identify themes. The data analysis occurred in three phases: sorting and organizing, making sense of patterns, and transforming patterns into findings.

Results: We found that correctional settings were characterized by a social culture of toxic hypermasculinity that influenced the pain experiences of people who were incarcerated. Individuals who experienced pain were more vulnerable to self-isolation in situations in which pain threatened their ability to defend themselves and their previously established social status within the prison hierarchy. Yet, those who felt secure in subordinate hierarchical positions and had effective peer relationships perceived greater safety in communal settings, which proved to be a distraction from pain.

Conclusion: In the context of incarceration, positive peer relationships and perceptions of safety positively influenced individuals' experience of pain.

监禁期间的痛苦:在重男轻女的惩教环境中寻找安全感。
介绍:超男性监狱文化根据个人通过力量和暴力维护支配地位的能力来划分等级。疼痛会影响体力,从而限制了在这种等级制度中提升或维持社会地位的能力。研究目的:本研究的目的是探究融入超男性监狱文化的被监禁男性的疼痛体验:研究设计采用了与关系伦理共同定位的解释性描述。12 名男性参与了 1 小时的访谈,访谈内容逐字记录,并通过归纳分析确定主题。数据分析分为三个阶段:分类和组织、理解模式以及将模式转化为研究结果:我们发现,惩教环境的特点是有毒的超男性社会文化,这种文化影响了被监禁者的疼痛体验。当疼痛威胁到他们保护自己的能力以及他们在监狱等级制度中先前确立的社会地位时,经历过疼痛的人更容易自我封闭。然而,那些在从属等级地位中感到安全并拥有有效同伴关系的人在公共环境中感到更安全,这证明可以分散对疼痛的注意力:结论:在监禁环境中,积极的同伴关系和安全感会对个人的痛苦体验产生积极影响。
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