This legal writing entitled Function and Role of Socialization Institution in the
Construction of Residivist Prisoners. The problem formulation in this legal writing
was how is function and role of socialization institution in Wirogunan Socialization
Institution of Yogyakarta in the construction of residivist prisoners. The purpose of
this legal research was to gain data on the function and role of socialization institution
in Wirogunan Socialization Institution of Yogyakarta in constructing the residivist
prisoners, as well as what barriers faced in the process of implementation of the
function and role. Relating to the title of this research aforementioned above, thus the
conducted research was empirical legal research focused on the legal society
behaviour (law in action), and this research used primary data as main data and
secondary data as supporting data. The purpose of this legal research was legal
sociology. The data used by author in this legal writing were primary and secondary
data. The location of research selected by author was Wirogunan Socialization
Institution of Yogyakarta. The population in this research was determined by
purposive sampling technique and sample selection was conducted by taking some
subjects based on certain purpose. In this resaerch the population sample taked was
comprised of the prisoner who according to the author have any traits or specific
characteristict who have their punishment in Wirogunan Socialization Institution of
Yogyakarta. The responden in this research was residivist prisoners who have their
punishment in Wirogunan Socialization Institution. In this research, source person
was the Officer of Wirogunan Socialization Institution Class IIA i.e. Mr. Ambar
Kusuma as Bimaswat staff. The secondary data comprised of primary legal material,
comprised of positive legal norm by shape of regulation. The secondary legal material
was legal opinion gained from books, paper, result of research, internet, opinion of
master of law, legal practitioner and newspaper relating to the problem studied by
author. The method of data collection in this research was conducted by interview
and questionnaire. The interview was conducted with soure person and respondent in
Wirogunan Socialization Institution. The questionnaire taken by the author was
closed questionnaire. The literary study was conducted by studying books or writings
relating to the studied problem.