Stygmatyzacja społeczna jako perspektywa teoretyczno-empiryczna na podstawie analizy przypadku byłej skazanej

• Published in: Polish journal of social rehabilitation Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 227 - 240
• Main Author: Żeromska-Charlińska, Joanna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pedagogium Fundation 2024; Fundacja Pedagogium
• Subjects: Gender Studies; Individual Psychology; Psychology; Social Sciences; Sociology; stigma; social exclusion; social stigmatisation; biographical learning; risk; homicide
• ISSN: 2081-3767; 2392-2656

In the article, attempts were made to describe social stigmatisation as a theoretical and an analytical category based on a case analysis of a former female convict. Stigmatisation emerged as the main analytical category in the presented research, and it was used in the study to present examples and symptoms of biographical learning based on the experiences of an adult woman, affected by the post-incarceration syndrome, and her efforts to cope with shame, humiliation, and stigma. The presented narrative focuses on external and internal risks after incarceration, as well as the subject’s efforts to cope with difficulties after being released from prison. Attempts were made to analyse the subject’s situation in her struggle for social inclusion, but not her conduct, and the research framework was based on the constructivist and interpretivist paradigm. The main aim of the study was to reconstruct and describe self-management and identity negotiation processes by a former female prisoner convicted of infanticide.The study involved an interpretative phenomenological analysis to gain a better understanding of the subject’s experiences and self-perception. The results indicate that the adopted research perspective is weakly represented in scientific discourse. The analysis of the empirical material showed that the respondent’s ability to deconstruct and overcome separation, currently blocks the opportunity for socialisation due to the failure to work through the crisis of social stigma and experience.