Telling the code: Instructions for interpretation (Continued)
Residents were often "evasive" in conversations with Wieder, rarely described the code for him in detail:
In various ways, residents offered me moral characterizations which made reference to he code. Some of these references were included in their complaints about the program. On a number of occasions, residents complained to me about the group therapy they experienced at he narcotics treatment center and under the old halfway house program. They said that such programs were based on "snitching, sniveling, and copping out." They explained that to engage fully in group therapy meant that you had to talk about what other guys were doing and to talk about your own private life, which was certain to include deviant episodes.