[Handsome Creepy Eel]

(09-08-2010 04:11 AM)thekiller Wrote:  

As someone who works with criminals everyday I can tell you the average Inmate is NOT alpha. The whole concept of gangs is strength in numbers. A lot of the toughness and posturing is JUST that. 99.9% of the time any Inmate that talks any shit to me in the Pod, will do it to puff himself up in front of the homies. I pull him into the hallway and it's a whole different ballgame. "I'm sorry sir.", "I was being foolish, won't happen again.".

The hardcore problem young gang bangers, yes they get lots of letters, and they brag about all the women they have. But after seeing these women come to visit, and seeing the pictures that come in the mail for these guys (we have to search all mail but legal mail), 80% of them you'd not want to screw. The 20% that are hot probably have drug or other health issues. Along with being slutty, you'd be amazed how these guys will talk about the girls they're banging with each other and then find out they've been banging all the same girls.

I agree high testosterone is common, but I would also say a high degree of self-delusion about their intelligence, the ability to rationalize their actions to a high degree no matter how wrong, and a complete lack of personal responsibility are the norm.

But it is true, Alpha doesn't really mean a whole lot anymore.

EDIT-Read that guy's article on the Three Criminal tracks and it seems sound. The real Players in jail keep a low profile and rarely are in any trouble with COs. The good ones are very low key and you can barely tell they run things. The very good ones let Middle Management sit at the head of the table and look like they run shit.

I agree, but I'd like to add a caveat here: the fact that mostly frumpy or fucked up women write love letters to criminals simply means it's a difference of a degree, not of a kind. The high-earning, hot, powerful female lawyer probably won't be getting wet for a murderer, but she will be getting wet for that bad boy in a suit who treats her like a sexual object and "seems dangerous".

I think a good analogy for this is how most men living today would never rape a woman, but most probably would if they had been raised in a prehistoric age where violence was the norm and only survival of the fittest applied.