On the Institutionalization of Penitentiary Sociology
Nowadays a new direction of penitentiary sociology is being actualized in the scientific community, which considers significant issues of social adapta-tion of convicts, their subculture, stratification, and resocialization. The importance of sociological knowledge in this area is substantiated, facts about a contradictory vision of punishment as a social function are presented. The subject of the author's consideration is the peculiarities of the interpreta-tion of penitentiary sociology and the specificity of its formation. The purpose of this article is to char-acterize the boundaries of the subject field of this sociological knowledge and to consider the specif-ics of considering prison punishment from the point of view of multifunctional purpose. The authors consider the protosociological approaches of D. Howard, S. V. Poznyshev to the issue of organiz-ing the penal system, as well as M. Fuko sociological interpretation of the role of punishment in society.