SOC229 Lecture 1: Lectures 1-3
20 Jan 2016
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Lecture 1: main source of data for penitentiary riots = statements made to police by inmates very detailed and useful, newspaper reports, biographies, books written by inmates/guards, journalists, reports by govt agencies, riots have a little variation to them; but generally patterns tend to stay the same, data gathered never perfect; needs to be used as best as possible, interviews of guards, inmates for additional background information, inmates giving statements to police put selves in danger considered rats which is against inmate code us vs them don"t rat out inmates or cooperate with police penalty in prison for being informants very harsh; often death why be informants? motives: benefit to self (e. g. parole hearing coming up, if get parole will be happy to testify in court) seen very favourably by parole board moral reasons; disgusted by what they saw (brutal murders, torture), want to see justice done.
