In their research on the American prison system, Bruce Western and Jeffrey Reiman note that the prison system functions as though it were designed to
A) train and socialize prisoners into a career of secondary deviance.
B) help prisoners repay their debt to society.
C) give prisoners marketable skills that will keep them from returning to prison.
D) make prisoners more respectable.

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Western and Reiman suggest that the prison system functions as a "revolving door" that returns prisoners to society, more likely to engage in criminal behavior than when they entered. The system may reinforce, rather than reduce, criminal behavior or "secondary deviance."

In Their Research on the American Prison System, Bruce Western