Cooptation of the kept, maintaining control in a southern penitentiary.

Traditionally, social control in prison has been described as the result of a single cause such as formal rules, inmate elites, or the informal compromises made between the guards and inmates. This case study, of one prison in the Texas Department of Corrections, examines social control in prison as...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Marquart, James Walter
Other Authors:	Christensen, Larry (degree committee member.), Gaston, Jerry (degree committee member.), McIntosh, Wm. Alex (degree committee member.)
Format:	Thesis Book
Language:	English
Published:	1983.
Subjects:	Prison discipline > Texas. Sociology Academic theses
Online Access:	Link to ProQuest Copy Link to OAKTrust copy