Norman S. Hayner

Homosexual and Drug Behavior in Prison: A Test of the Functional and Importation Models of the Inmate System

Which of the two major models of the inmate system, the importation or the functional, better accounts for two forms of in-prison behavior of inmates, drug use and homosexual behavior, is tested in a sample of inmates from seven U.S. prisons. The prisons were classified into three types along a custody-treatment continuum. The reported levels of these two kinds of behavior in the different types of prisons are examined against their relationship to seven inmate background characteristics. The analysis reveals that the amount of drug and homosexual behavior among inmates is more a function of the type of prison which holds them than the social characteristics which they bring with them from the outside.

Differential Social Change in a Mexican Town

final choice, but he would have contributed to the possibility of its being made intelligently. Moreover, he himself might, as citizen, elect to support one of the alternatives. This is the position that Jose Medina Echavarria approaches, but does not quite adopt. I have found the reading of his three books a st m lating experience. He has forced me to r view many assumptions and conclusions which needed to be revised. His critique of North American sociology is particularly challenging (C chap. 6). I hope that many of my colleagues may benefit from studying the works of this brilliant Spaniard.

Pauline Morris. Prisoners and Their Families. Pp. 327. New York: Hart, under the auspices of Political & Economic Planning, 1965.

nomic Planning, 1965.

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5.95. Researchers who specialize in the field of correction have long been aware that the family situation is not only a crucial influence in the etiology of delinquent behavior but is also important in the rehabilitation of an offender. So far this study by Pauline Morris is the best that has been made of the interaction between various types of prisoners and their wives. Although the project does not reflect familiarity with the growing literature on the

Rose Giallombardo. Society of Women: A Study of a Women's Prison. Pp. ix, 244. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966.

&dquo;Greater understanding of the prison communities may best be accomplished by focusing attention on the relationship between the external and internal cultures,&dquo; writes Rose Giallombardo, &dquo;rather than by trying to understand the prison as an institution isolated from the larger society.&dquo; On the basis of her year of almost daily contact as a researcher, mostly with the inmates, at the Federal Reformatory for Women in Alderson, West Virginia, she concludes: &dquo;The vast majority of inmates adjust to the prison world by establishing a homosexual alliance with a compatible partner as a marriage unit.&dquo; Any woman who does not participate in homosexual activities is &dquo;automatically labeled a square.&dquo; The female prison presents no counterpart for the &dquo;right guy&dquo; who struggles for power in a male prison. The former is notable for a shifting of marriage partners. Most prisoners prefer to play the &dquo;femme&dquo; role in prison. The so-called &dquo;stud-broad&dquo; assumes the male role. In doing this &dquo;he&dquo; takes over many &dquo;stylized symbols of masculinity&dquo;: crops his hair short and combs it straight (no curls); does not use cosmetics; if possible, wears slacks with loosely fitted trouser legs; wears shoes with flat heels, socks straight up, and shirt over the skirt rather than tucked inside; may corrupt his feminine name, as from Barbara to Bob or Rachel