Paqe 12 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1978
Prof investigates jail life from inside
% LIZ BAILEY
Battalion Reporter
Ben Crouch, associate professor
of Sociology at Texas A&M Univer
sity, is into prisons — literally and
figuratively.
Crouch might be better described
as the campus criminologist and jus
tice department all rolled into one.
Since coming to Texas A&M
seven years ago. Crouch is the only
professor specializing in criminology
here.
When he came to Texas A&M,
only one course concerning
criminology was being taught.
Three others have been added as re
sults of his efforts. Crouch said.
Crouch teaches all four courses.
The courses concern juvenile de
linquency, criminology, deviant be
havior and corrections.
Crouch said all four courses are
very popular among students. He
said since the criminology course
was begun, over 100 students have
taken the course each semester. He
added that the course is open to
students of any major.
Crouch said some students say
the courses are about “Nuts and
sluts and preverts.”
While teaching is one of his prime
concerns. Crouch said he also
enjoys doing research.
He said “I don’t believe teaching
and research have to be enemies.”
Crouch said teaching aids in is re
search because it gives him the op
portunity to compile and consider
his results.
Crouch said he likes studying the
personnel of the criminal justice sys
tem and is primarily interested in
prison guards.
Crouch said his latest research
project was done near Huntsville at
the Ferguson unit of the Texas De
partment of Corrections.
For the project, Crouch donned a
guard’s uniform and worked as a
prison guard for about five weeks.
During that time. Crouch said,
only the “warden and Personnel Di
rector knew who I was. ”
Crouch said that his captain asked
“if I had ever had any Sociology or
Psychology or any of that crap. ”
Crouch said the captain added that,
“I was gonna find out what it was
really like inside.”
During the five weeks. Crouch
said he did such jobs as opening and
closing cell doors, counting inmates
and listening to their requests.
“It was an overwhelming experi
ence,” Crouch said.
“I didn’t walk a mile in their (the
inmates) shoes, I walked a yard or
two,” Crouch said.
He said he would like to do the
same thing again except in another
prison.
Crouch said last summer he
toured prisons in Louisiana, Arkan
sas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. At a
prison in Mississippi, Crouch
visited the Maximum Security Unit
commonly known as death row.
After the tour. Crouch said he
wrote a paper comparing prisons in
the four states.
Crouch is presently seeking hinds
for a research project to study the
occupational socialization of prison
guards.
Crouch said he will use both ob
servations and statistics in the
study.
Crouch is also writing a book
which he hopes will be published by
the end of the year, titled “The
Keepers, Prison Guards and Con
temporary Corrections.
The book is about guards and is
told from the guards’ point of view.
Crouch said.
He doesn’t expect the book to sell
well because even though “the
guard has the greatest impact on
prisoners, they have long been the
forgotten man,” he said.
Most research is done on subjects
involving prisoners, he said.
Crouch said all of his research is
“my effort to expand what I know
about prisons.”
Crouch said he does research
rather than just teach because he
thinks it is necessary in order to be
able to write things which can be
applied.
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