Marginalisierte Leiblichkeiten und Atmosphären in Jugendstrafanstalten - Resozialisierung im Medium von Körper und Leib am Beispiel von Capoeira

Even for people who have never entered a prison, this quote from an inmate indicates what is sometimes the excruciating part about living in a penal institution. It shows especially the importance sport can have for young people. In particular, to fade out everyday life in prison, to forget where one is and to find refuge. In fact, the quote illustrates that the inmate feels threatened by his situation. His reality is a slap in the face and the escape is sport, an escape for one moment. The meaning of the impositions (based on biographical experiences) in the current situation in prison as well as the coping strategies that young people demonstrate to face these difficulties present the topic of this thesis. Based on relevant theoretical findings and in-depth interviews with inmates, it will be furthermore asked how these strategies, which provide a feeling of well-being and security through the felt body can be integrated into the prison concept in order to replace other strategies, such as the use of drugs or acting out aggression through violence, and thus providing the possibility of reaching the goal of rehabilitation. In search for theories that focus on the importance of the felt body in coping with everyday life of young people, a desideratum has become evident that not only reveals that the understanding of the actions of young people is very limited due to the dethematisation of the felt body, but also reveals assumptions about the reasons why concepts of resocialisation in the majority of cases fail. Accordingly, not only was the body phenomenology of Hermann Schmitz presented in detail, but the relevant theories of social work science on coping strategies of young people were systematically supplemented by the dimension of the felt body. From this point of view, the common interventions for resocialisation were considered and problematised in order to then - within the framework of the presented research - examine a Capoeira project as a possibility of physical coping mechanisms within collective climates. In order to understand how young people experience the situation of imprisonment, which physical demands go along with it and which climates arise from these circumstances, it was necessary to use my own emotional involvement as a key for the analysis. Accordingly, the field was approached auto-ethnographically using selected, systematically interpreted sketches to illustrate how the atmosphere in prison and the prison concept make resocialisation impossible.