Abstract
Interaction between social control personnel about situations of mutual concern is assumed to be eufunctional. Propositions pertaining to avoidance of such interaction are derived and then examined with data collected from 743 social control personnel. Some conclusions are that agency personnel avoid their own agency personnel less and hold them in higher esteem than other agency personnel. Low intra-agency avoidance appears more strongly related to high intra-agency esteem than to intra-agency adherence to normative prescriptions for interaction. High negative associations between esteem and avoidance suggest that social control system interaction can be characterized as voluntaristic. Functional similarity increases interagency esteem. This latter finding suggested possible ideological antagonisms between agencies because of authoritarian-punitive versus humanitarian-welfare orientations.
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