@article{ref1,
title="Prison Guards and "snitches": Deviance Within a Total Institution",
journal="British journal of criminology",
year="1985",
author="Marquart, James W. and Roebuck, JB",
volume="25",
number="3",
pages="217-233",
abstract="This article examines how the staff in a maximum security penitentiary co-opted the dominant inmates or elites to act as informers. Previous research and popular presentations have generally portrayed &quot;rats&quot; as outcasts and weak prisontrs. Participant observation data reveal that the inmate-snitches in the prison undtr study were not weak but wtre the most aggrmive and feared inmates. Infoming was their actual prison work-role and the ordinary inmates lacked the influence and power to impute deviancy to the inmate-snitch role. The last section describes how the staff used inmate-snitch reports to control the inmate population.<p />",
language="",
issn="0007-0955",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}