Games Prisoners Play: The Tragicomic Worlds of Polish Prison
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Entry -- Chapter Two: The Constraints of Prison Life: An Overview -- Material Constraints -- Administrative Constraints -- Subcultural Constraints: A Glimpse at the World of Grypsmen -- Note on Importation versus Deprivation -- Chapter Three: Becoming a Grypsman -- Initiation Tests -- First Screening: Fag-Making and Baptism -- Little Games -- Hidden Tests -- Prison University -- Chapter Four: Prison Code of Behavior -- The Semi-Secret Code -- The Secret Code -- Sanctions and Intercaste Mobility -- Chapter Five: Argot -- Argot Vocabulary -- Argot Roles -- Secret Argot Grammar -- Language Games -- Chapter Six: Everyday Life -- Random Walk through the Cell Archipelago -- Information and Trade Markets -- Coalitional Structures and Resource-Sharing -- Arenas of Art and Entertainment -- Fights and Exploitation -- Chapter Seven: Sex, Flirtation, Love -- Masturbation -- Fags -- Women -- Chapter Eight: Strategic Ailment -- Goals of Strategic Ailment -- Techniques of Strategic Ailment -- Cases of Self-Injury -- Cases of Faking -- Chapter Nine: Exit -- Postscriptum: Variants and Evolution of Grypsmen Subculture -- Local Variants and Modifications -- The Evolution of Grypsmen Subculture -- Appendix Prison Playground: Games and Decisions -- Glossary Essential Argot -- Notes -- References -- Index