Les entrants en prison

The author gives clear indication that the population which comes in prison belongs frequently to the most underprivilegied social classes which are, on account of their social vulnerability, destined for providing the repressive system. As a matter of fact, without doubt this population which is a butt for social control is composed by a majority of young people and strangers (these ones are proportionaly more numerous than in the whole French population), by people with poor school attendance and it is constituted for the major part by workmen, employees, marginals and inactive people. At last it is prosecuted, most often, for traditional delinquency (robberies, violences against people . . .). The factors prove that the repressive system — of which the incarcerated population is the final result — for it does not apply much to the upper social classes, these ones being involved in a type of delinquency less perceptible and often more connected to the profession (financial and fiscal offences . . .), can't never give us a good representation of delinquency and of its characteristics, but only a representation of its own production

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