NCJ Number
85231
Journal
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency Volume: 19 Issue: 2 Dated: (July 1982) Pages: 238-254
Date Published
1982
Length
17 pages
Annotation
In peer opinion estimates by correctional officers, the officers underestimated the professional orientation and overestimated the cynicism of fellow officers.
Abstract
Disaggregation of these data locates a subgroup of believers in a 'CO subculture.' These officers tend to be a highly alienated unrepresentative minority. The largest officer subtype is that of professionally oriented accurate estimators of nonsubcultural peer opinion. (Author abstract)