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Prisons, Prison Officers and Prisoners' Families, 2021

2022
The Families – Inside Prison and Out project at the University of Strathclyde involved research with prison officers in Scotland whose roles involved working with, or related to, families of people in prison. The project ran from October 2020 – December 2021 and the research took place between April and September 2021, involving ten semi-structured ...
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The Prison Officer's Dilemma : Professional Representations among Swedish Prison Officers

Les dossiers des sciences de l'éducation, 2010
Cet article porte sur une étude réalisée auprès de gardiens de prisons suédois. Nous analysons deux types de représentations professionnelles qui constituent deux types de connaissances collectivement construites. Le point de départ de cette étude est l''existence de sous-cultures dans la profession des gardiens de prisons en Suède.
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Psychosocial Climate in Croatian Prisons: Prison Officers' Perspective

Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference “LIFE IN PRISON: Criminological, Penological, Psychological, Sociological, Legal, Security, and Medical Issues”
The psychosocial climate in prison refers to the extent to which the whole institution is perceived safe for prisoners and prison officers and supportive of rehabilitation and behaviour change. It encompasses the institution's social, emotional, organisational, and physical determinants and is important for prisoners and prison officers.
Anja Wertag, Ines Ines Sučić
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Prison officers and prison culture

2012
Research on prison life tends to neglect prison officers, casting them as monolithic, male, power-hungry enforcers of authority. Such accounts are sociologically impoverished and deeply misleading. Prison work is complex and varied, and those at the coal face underuse their authority in the interests of their peacekeeping tasks far more often than ...
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Screwed: Prison Work and Prison Officer Cultures

2020
Screwed centres on Sam Norwood, a new prison officer. He learns his craft, guided by more experienced colleagues, and becomes enmeshed in the culture, turning to colleagues for social connection and emotional support, becoming more detached from his wife and young child.
Jamie Bennett, Victoria Knight
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Prisoners’ Perceptions of Prison Officers as Sources of Support

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2000
Abstract Obtaining social support is an important aspect of managing stress. Within the unit management model, prison officers provide supportive assistance to prisoners and provide access to other sources of support. Officers' capacity to fulfill these aspects of their duties relies, in part, upon prisoners' willingness to approach officers for ...
Gaynor S. Hobbs, Greg E. Dear
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