Analyzing prison related

graffities

Erasmus conference
Hungarian Prison College
Gergely Fliegauf, Dept. of Corrections
Methodolical issues of a prison
research
• who? • psychotest?
• what? • questionnaire?
• possible? • interview?

• self-representation
• criminal gangs?
Examples from abroad
1981 Northern
Ireland
Blanket protest
Dirty protest
political movement
POWs
H-Blocks (tool and
surface)
outside perimeter
walls
Long Kesh (HM
Prison Maze)
and on other walls...
Artists graffity on the
inner side of the
perimeter wall
(Bochum JVA)
subculture ...
politics???
Functions
Counting days
Messages
Threat
bullying
Denmark
presence
Group threat
Ethnic statement

sentenc
e

Libanese gang
Popculture – possible
mistakes

funny poem

a hardcore techno
music group, not a
gang
Hungarian exaples
presence, threat,
place
Statement
You can break me but never
kill me
Threat, gang, place (VIII)
Hajdúhadház,
presence
Extreme right wing
movement
Specialization (car theft)
„Drug market”
„Nem szállítanak el, de
ha itt maradok,
enyém lesz, enyém
lesz az egész rohadt
drogpiac! Átveszem
az üzletet, az árják
örülhetnek, ha
velem üzletelnek.
Már az öcsém,
SMOKI, elintézte az
összekötőt,
befagyasztotta a
csatornáikat, nem
kell a segítségetek."
„Drug market”
„I wont be
transported, I will
stay here and the
whole drug market
will be mine! I will
rule the business,
the Aryans can be
happy to have the
deal with me. My
brother, SMOKI,
arranged the
contactman, froze
their canals, I don’t
„White pride”
artistic self definition
in an isolation cell