Race, Commitment to Deviance, and Spoiled Identity.

Harris, Anthony R.

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Publication Date: 1976

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Race, Commitment to Deviance, and Spoiled Identity

Harris, Anthony R.

American Sociological Review, 41, 3, 432-441, Jun 76

Data generated by 234 young black and white inmates in 1971 challenge the assumption that spoiled identity is a necessary, socially invariant outcome of deviant commitment and self-definition. For blacks, the relationship between criminal self-typing and stability and esteem is negative but inconsequential; for whites, the relationship is negative and significant. (Author/JM)

Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Identification (Psychology), Labeling (of Persons), Prisoners, Racial Differences, Racial Factors, Self Concept, Self Esteem, Surveys, Young Adults

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