Correctional officer attitudes toward inmates and working with inmates in a “get tough” era
✍ Scribed by Mary Ann Farkas
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 56 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0047-2352
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✦ Synopsis
The past few decades have seen an ideological shift to a more punitive attitude in policy and practice toward crime and criminal offenders. This study examined the orientation of local correctional officers toward inmates and worked with inmates to ascertain whether their attitudes mirror this punitive inclination. Findings indicate that despite the more punitive sentiment among the public and policymakers, officers still do not express a punitive attitude toward inmates and generally support rehabilitation programs for inmates. The study also looked at the impact of several individual characteristic and work variables on officer attitudes. Results show work variables are more strongly associated with attitudes among correctional officers. The implications of this research for correctional management are discussed.