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Prosocial Motivation of Prison Service Officers as an Occupational Group with a Social Mission [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Journal of Social Rehabilitation, 2015
The occupation of the Prison Service officer belongs to the professions of public trust and is associated with the penitentiary social mission. In choosing their career path, officers should identify themselves with the mission of the penitentiary system
Robert Poklek
doaj  

Beyond the Walls: An Evaluation of a Pre-Release Planning (PReP) Programme for Sentenced Mentally Disordered Offenders

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2018
Background: Prison mental health services have tended to focus on improving the quality of care provided to mentally disordered offenders at the initial point of contact with the prison system and within the prison environment itself.
Damian Smith   +18 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementation of novel and conventional outbreak control measures in managing COVID-19 outbreaks in a large UK prison

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2022
Background Outbreak control measures during COVID-19 outbreaks in a large UK prison consisted of standard (e.g., self-isolation) and novel measures, including establishment of: (i) reverse cohorting units for accommodating new prison admissions; (ii ...
Paul C. Coleman   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Terrorism and the internet: How dangerous is online radicalization?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
This work is concerned with the extent and magnitude of threat related to online radicalization in the context of terrorist acts and related offending.
Jens F. Binder, Jonathan Kenyon
doaj   +1 more source

Operation and Role of the Operative Body of the Hungarian Prison Service Headquarters in the Fight Against Covid-19 Epidemic

open access: yesBelügyi Szemle, 2021
During the coronavirus pandemic the Hungarian Prison Service had to introduce measures that were unknown for the service previously and which had a significant impact on the daily duty of the staff.
János Schmehl
doaj   +1 more source

Psychosocial risks within prison service [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Health and Social Sciences, 2016
We aimed to identify the psychosocial risks that penitentiary police officers face. To do so, we developed the police stress risk questionnaire–prison (PSrQ–p), a questionnaire for psychosocial risk assessment at workplace, consisting of 22 items that ...
Giuseppe Ferrari
doaj   +1 more source

Impacts of Professionalization and Wellbeing Policies on Scottish Prison Workers

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2021
Prison workers occupy a niche role. Balancing the care and welfare of prisoners while simultaneously restricting their freedoms is a stressful job, laced with danger, that occurs entirely within the bounded context of the prison.
Andrew Fletcher   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementation of Youth Empowerment Services (YES) juvenile justice diversion program: A first‐person account

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Santa Barbara County, the Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Program brought together several government and community‐based organizations, as well as a university‐based evaluation team, to provide pre‐adjudication diversion to youth ages 12 to 17.
Angela Pollard   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
wiley   +1 more source

Burnout in officers of the prison service units. The role of personality and selected professional characteristics

open access: yesMedycyna Pracy, 2017
Background: The researchers involved in the studies of burnout indicate its 3 sources: the structure of the personality, the specificity of interpersonal relationships, and the organizational factors.
Ewa Sygit-Kowalkowska   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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