Pre-Institutional vs. Situational Influence in a Correctional Community

* Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Chicago. The author wishes to acknowledge the cooperation of Harold Novick, Superintendent of the Glen Mills Schools, and John Jennings, Director of Social Service, and his staff. The research was partly supported by NDEA (Title IV) and University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Fellowships. 1 Irwin & Cressey, Thieves, Convicts, and the Inmate Culture, in THE OTHER SIDE 225 (H. Becker ed. 1964). 2 Roebuck, A Critique of Thieves, Convicts, and the Inmate Culture, 11 SocIA. PROBLEMS 193-200 (1963). Vol. 62, No. 4 Printed in U.S.A.