The field study revealed that some prisoners voluntarily serve prison sentences in exchange for an accomplice with whom they committed a crime. The analysis is based on interviews conducted in Polish prisons. The main purpose of the text is to reconstruct the strategies that govern this practice and contrast them with the results of experiments conducted by researchers of the network exchange theory. An additional goal is to assess the suitability of this theory for modeling real exchange networks. The analysis showed that prisoners' decisions meet the criteria of rational choice, while the ability to model this behavior according to the assumptions of exchange network theory is limited.
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