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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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Unspoken commandments: Contemporary correctional officer work cultures and their influence on prison conditions

2023
I draw on interviews with 131 Canadian correctional officers (or COs), all of whom work in four western Canadian prisons. Building on existing Canadian and international CO research, my dissertation analyzes specific facets of CO workplace cultures in provincial prisons in Western Canada. Provincial prisons, which house prisoners who are awaiting trial
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The work and culture of prison officers

2007
This thesis seeks to provide an understanding of the contemporary role of the custodial officer, and contains information from the 'front line' supported ethnographically and through literature. By examining their perspectives of the prison, the relationships within it, and their place in the justice system, we will see that they are a group of workers
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Article 8: How Prison Climate and Culture Shapes Prison Officer’s Role Experiences and Retention

Advancing Corrections Journal
This article qualitatively examines the cultural, organizational, and wider contextual factors that shape prison officers’ experiences of their role and retention in the prison service. We draw on interviews with 47 prison officers who joined the prison service in England and Wales through the Unlocked Graduates’ Leadership Development Programme.
Liam Fenn   +3 more
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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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Achieving and maintaining prison officer-prisoner relationships; Tasmanian perspectives from a time ofculture change

2009
Prison officer-prisoner relationships are at the heart of prison life. This thesis seeks to understand what, from the perspective of the prison officer, is an effective officer-prisoner relationship. Secondly it asks how a prison that overtly places the prison officer-prisoner relationship as the central mechanism through which organisational and ...
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‘I Wouldn’t Ask You to Do Something I Wouldn’t Do Myself’: Prison Managers and Prison Officer Culture

2016
Criminal justice organisations, including prisons (Arnold et al., 2007; Crawley and Crawley, 2008) and the police (Loftus, 2011), have often been described as having distinct occupational cultures. These observations are usually based upon studies of front-line staff such as prison officers and police constables but they leave open the question of how ...
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