This work addresses the ways in which dominated people collaborate with their own domination, and does so on the basis of ethnografico material from research that addressed dyscursivity and the practice of corrective pedagogy in a Spanol youth justice centre. By establishing a dialogue between the concepts of symbolic Bourdieu violence and the moral race of the Goffman, the article presents a double analytic record that avoids, first, the conduct and scene of the prisoners from a point of view and, secondly, looks at how they somatise the incriminating dinamics inherent in the prison regime. In this way, the ways in which young people are compensated, or fine-tuned, are explored with the perspective of themselves that supports the institution, in this case one that hopes to cater for dangerous and violent individuals. Labelling as a ‘young offender’ seems to adopt the identity attributed to it and (re) to be presented on the basis of that stigma. However, other forms of obedience or participation are also discussed. Those that remain within the margenes of control and the will of the detainees, and which respond to the system of enforcement inherent in the overall institutions. And others that insinuate a type of subjection that is more subtle, continuous and inadvertent: those unconscious provisions obliging the dominated to participate unconsciously with their subjection as an embodied effect of domination itself.