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- Title
REPLY TO KORN.
- Authors
Glaser, Daniel
- Abstract
The article presents the author's reply to author Richard R. Korn's article "On Prisons and Parole: A Reply To Toby's Defense of Glaser." Inmates at various stages of their prison term were asked to select the three statements from a group of nine which best stated what they were "most interested in doing here" and the three which best described "what most other inmates are interested in." An inmate answering this by selecting statements to describe his three major interests in prison is not claiming never to be interested in any of the other six, as Korn implies in pointing out that less than one percent designated learning crime skills as one of their three major interests. But more important, this minute fraction of the book's total data was explicitly sought and is clearly presented, not as an accurate measure of inmate interests, but as an index of shift in inmate perception of other inmates with time in prison. The longer they are confined, the more extensively they perceive the interests of other inmates as different from their own.
- Subjects
PRISONERS; INSTITUTIONALIZED persons; KORN, Richard R.; CRIME; CRIMINALS; SENSORY perception; CRIMINAL behavior
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1967, Vol 32, Issue 2, p305
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article