" LIVING TOGETHER " PREVENTION WORKSHOPS ON RADICALIZATION IN PRISON SETTING
Résumé
We aim to introduce a field action set up in the prison field following the Paris attacks (07/01/2015) in order to create a talking and thinking space for new arrivals in jail. This action, based on prevention workshops (N=7), has been hosted each time by a probation officer and a psychologist, allowing about forty incarcerated men to think about each one's place as a citizen. We used intergroup relations framework, specifically of social categorization metatheory (Abrams & Hogg, 2004; Tajfel & Turner, 1979, 1986; Turner et al., 1987), supplemented by theory of social partitions (Castel & Lacassagne, 2011, 2015). The methodology is based on empathy in relationship, identification and deconstruction of stereotypes and the need to think about collective beliefs and co-construction concept of "republican secularism". This is made through the solicitation of participants' personal, social and collective identities. Resorting to a mixed methodology, integrating support and moments contrasting with commonly used ones in workshops and talking groups, allowed to break habits underlying social roles. The failure to mention requirement of action and imprisonment reason allowed participants to put across a definition of identity out of their reality of incarcerated individuals. Joint coordination with outside staff of prison system ensured speaker's as well as participants' participation, which favoured trust and dialogue (participants' private lives were discussed and gave rise to convivial moments). Each workshop took place over a period of three half-days: a) Creation of framework (for the action) and first interaction on the problems of relationships (inside/outside jail); brainstorming about citizenship and its contexts; exchange about religious beliefs and republican values, especially secularism. Main thematic areas on which the participants worked, have been classified under three types of relationships: personal and interpersonal, intergroup, and institutional and societal. These types of elations led to relations improvement strategies: a/ significance of free thinking and taking ownership of decisions b/ usefulness of forbearance and of daily negotiation and accepting that one may not be always right, c/ questioning empathy and republican equality, resonating with Syrian migrants and d/ linking founding principles of religion and official documents of the Republic, leading to think about religious liberty and understanding acts of violence as a result of a radical interpretation and not as a specific religious belief. This action has been favourably assessed and welcomed, either by funders or by participants, leading to a renewal in 2016. Extending the target audience not only aids improvement but also intervention and research programs, analysing relations between prisoner categories (foreigners/natives).
Domaines
Psychologie
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