Predlagaemaya vnimaniyu chitateley monografiya soderzhit vsestoronniy analiz tyuremnoy subkul'tury v Rossii. V ney rassmotreny istoriya rossiyskoy tyur'my kak sotsiokul'turnogo instituta, struktura tyuremnogo sotsiuma i mezhlichnostnye otnosheniya v tyur'me, problema adaptatsii cheloveka k usloviyam sushchestvovaniya v tyur'me, proanalizirovany tsennostno-normativnaya sistema tyuremnoy subkul'tury i kul'turnye artefakty tyuremnogo mira. Kniga rasschitana na nauchnykh rabotnikov, prepodavateley filosofskikh i yuridicheskikh distsiplin, aspirantov i studentov, a takzhe vsekh interesuyushchikhsya problemami izucheniya tyuremnoy subkul'tury.
