In peer opinion estimates by correctional officers, the officers underestimated
the professional orientation and overestimated the cynicism of fellow officers.
Disaggregation of these data locates a subgroup of believers in a "CO subculture." These officers tend to be a highly alienated unrepresentative minor ity. The largest officer subtype is that of professionally oriented accurate estimators of nonsubcultural peer opinion.
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