V uchebnom posobii dana kharakteristika kriminal"noy subkul"tury i naibolee kachestvennoy eye sostavlyayushchey - tyuremnoy subkul"tury. Osobennost"yu raboty yavlyaetsya to, chto tyuremnaya subkul"tura issledovana kak kriminologicheskiy i kul"turnyy fenomen (kul"turnyy fenomen daet tsennostnyy smysl cheloveku). V posobii rassmotreny sushchnost" i mekhanizmy vozniknoveniya tyuremnoy subkul"tury, a takzhe istoricheskie etapy eye formirovaniya. Osoboe vnimanie udeleno lideram prestupnoy sredy, znacheniyu tyuremnoy subkul"tury dlya podderzhaniya ikh vlasti nad osnovnoy massoy osuzhdennykh. V rabote predlozheny mery obshchey i individual"noy profilaktiki tyuremnoy subkul"tury, proanalizirovan zarubezhnyy opyt. Dannoe uchebnoe posobie prednaznacheno dlya prakticheskikh i nauchnykh rabotnikov pravookhranitel"nykh organov, osushchestvlyayushchikh deyatel"nost" po profilaktike prestupnosti.