Reflecting the voices of prison officers with respect to their support, supervision, and wellbeing training needs: a reflexive thematic analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthPrisons represent a significant public health concern. The challenging living and working conditions within prisons are widely acknowledged to contribute to elevated rates of ill health among both prisoners and prison officers. Officers hold a vital role
Joanne Forsyth +2 more
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British Journal of Criminology, 2021 AbstractReflecting on new trans prisoner placement policies within Canadian federal prisons, in light of recent changes instigated under the Canadian Liberal Trudeau government, we provide knowledge from cisgender correctional officer (CO) recruits regarding these policy changes and underscore their views of working with officers who identify as ...
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Marooned at Work: The Impact of Prison Officer Isolation on Occupational Culture
Howard Journal of Crime and JusticeAbstract The impact of the insular nature of prison environments is usually studied from the perspective of incarcerated persons. This article presents key findings from an ethnographic study in a Belgian telephone pole‐style prison, exploring the experiences of prison officers working in single‐staffed units and the impact on the ...
Kristel Beyens, Lorenz Pardon
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Correction: Reflecting the voices of prison officers with respect to their support, supervision, and wellbeing training needs: a reflexive thematic analysis [PDF]
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The Spread of the Prison Subculture as a Driver of Its Destructive Influence on the Personality of Young Correctional Officers [PDF]
Пенитенциарная наука, 2021 Introduction: we study the negative impact of the prison subculture on the personality of a correctional officer. Amid the social crisis caused by the collapse of the USSR the prison subculture started to penetrate into popular culture.
VITALII E. LAPSHIN, TAT’YANA V. GALICH
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Becoming a Prison Officer: An Analysis of the Early Development of Prison Officer Cultures [PDF]
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 2020 AbstractDespite the fact that over recent years, imprisonment in Scotland has adopted a bold and aspirational policy direction including proposed reforms to the role of the prison officer, there has been little research into prison officers in Scotland, and by extension, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) as an organisation. This article offers a unique
KATRINA MORRISON, MATTHEW MAYCOCK
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Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2022 This contribution is an investigation into the role of implicit (as opposed to explicit) biases in judicial rulings by examining the judgment of Chetty J in Mbena v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services 2015 4 All SA 361 (ECP).
Casper Lӧtter
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Health and healthcare access among Zambia's female prisoners: a health systems analysis. [PDF]
, 2016 BackgroundResearch exploring the drivers of health outcomes of women who are in prison in low- and middle-income settings is largely absent. This study aimed to identify and examine the interaction between structural, organisational and relational ...
Chileshe, Chisela +8 more
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Identities, Education and Reentry: Performative Spaces and Enclosures [PDF]
, 2014 This is part one of a two-part interdisciplinary paper that examines the various forces (discourses and institutional processes) that shape prisoner-student identities.
Wright, Randall
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Men researching men in prison: the challenges for profeminist research [PDF]
, 2007 This article addresses epistemological and practical issues in conducting research in male prisons from a profeminist standpoint. It considers the role of the male researcher in engaging with prison masculinities and a sexist prison culture.
Cowburn, M.
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