Look Who’s Talking: The Snitching Paradox in a Representative Sample of Prisoners

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Snitching refers to conveying inside and potentially incriminating information about others to authorities. In contrast to prior criminological accounts of snitching, which rely on small and purposive samples, we used a probability sample of 802 male prisoners in Texas to study the status, prevalenc...

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Main Author: Pyrooz, David C. (Author)
Contributors: Decker, Scott H. 1950- ; Mitchell, Meghan M. ; Moule, Richard K, Jr
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: [2021]
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 1145-1167
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
snitching
Prison
convict code
Norms
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