1. According to Irwin, in what ways do jails and prisons prepare inmates psychologically to enter or stay in the
"rabble class"?
- In what ways does it prepare them culturally?
- How does it prepare them socially?
2. What is it, specifically, about daily life in prisons or about social attitudes towards prisoners that causes this?
3. How many different types of grounding does Irwin have? Is it strong or weak grounding, from an academic
standpoint?
4. Although Irwin provides no advocative claims suggesting what we should do to solve this problem (preparing
people for rabble life on the outside world), how would you change prisons to avoid the problem?