Webb and Morris (1980) found that officers perceived ______ as outsiders with political connections whose main focus was “looking good” and who did not possess the prison officers’ knowledge of the institution and the inmate population.

a. prison administrators
b. politicians
c. new guards
d. none of these


Ans: A

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