The aim of this article is to examine the existence of a subculture of violence shared by inmates incarcerated in the Violent Offender Unit. It is situated within a phenomenology of prison subcultures, analyzing how inmates perceive their own relationship to violence rather than focusing on specific forms of violence. The materials were gathered through narrative mediation, which combines observations and interviews to create narrative accounts, and the results are expressed through fables written with three inmates. The analysis discusses the existence of a form of prison subculture based on three common dimensions of the inmates' relationship to violence: an instrumental relationship to violence, the importance of the collective dimension of conflicts, and violence as a dynamic of resistance to processes of de-/subjectivation.
