Following a discussion of the bases of power in prison, data from a survey of guards in five prisons are examined to determine the extent to which each power base is viewed as a resource to gain prisoner compliance. The results are discussed in terms of the guards' exercise of control within the increasingly bureaucratic structure of coercive organizations. (Publisher abstract)
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