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THE 1972 PARRAMATTA JAIL GLOSSARY IBD

BRUCE MOORE
AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY PUBLICAT
11 / 2023
9780645955002
Inglés

Sinopsis

In 1972, a group of prisoners at Parramatta Jail in Sydney put together a glossary of prison words and phrases. It is a list of 362 words with definitions.áMany of the terms describe life in the prison, including punishments, the psychological effects of incarceration, and male to male sex. Others come from the prisonersâÇÖ encounters with police and the legal systemáor from the prisonersâÇÖ place in a wider underworld or criminal culture.áThe book examines the social functions of underworld and prison slang, especially its role in creating a world that stands in opposition to the âÇÖordinaryâÇÖ world that most of us inhabit. It shows thatáprison language is the cement that holds together the structure of the prisonersâÇÖ alternative reality.áThe major part of the book is a detailed edition of the words and phrases that make up the Parramatta Jail Glossary. It explains what the words mean and where they came from. There are extensive quotations from texts such as newspapers, novels, and autobiographies that illustrate how the words in the glossary are used in speech and writing. They bring to life the social world of the prisoners.