Prisoners scored highest on authoritarian scales while holding conservative patriotic views

Evidence

The prisoners produced the highest mean scores of all groups tested on the E, PEC, and F scales. The criminal types represented in the San Quentin population were not, it seems, rebels against established authority. On the contrary, they were politically and economically conservative types, highly patriotic, and filled with hatred for submerged ethnic groups. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 515

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general theme of criminals as ‘rebels’ versus the finding that they are often conventional conformists — echoes of Stanley Milgram’s obedience studies and Hannah Arendt on the banality of evil. — connects to: Criminal populations scored highest on authoritarianism, not as rebels but as conservatives — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 514