✍ Scribed by Aliene Paboojian; Raymond H.C. Teske Jr.
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This article presents the findings J)-onl a study of 319 correctional ¢~ffieers enrolled in the pre-service academies of the Texas Department of Crinlinal Justice-Institutional Division and focuses on their attitudes toward treatntent programs in the prison system. The.findings are based on surveys ctdnlinistered to approximately equal nunlbers of oJficers at the beginning ~{['the pre-service acadenlv and at the conclusion of the pre-service acadenlv. The dependent variabh, consisted o.f a nlaster scale consisting ~I .fifty-nine dichotomous items that was designed to nleasure attitudes toward sly treatnlent progranls. This sctme scale had been used twice previously in studies o.f in-sen'ice correctional ¢~[ficers' attitudes. Three variables were Jound to be #particular significance m explamblg variation in corpvctional e~[.l~cers' attitudes: race/ethnicio', size e{f the town in which the o.ff~cer wa.s living when the ¢~[ficer entered the acadenly, and a~e. The first two are of pHnlary significance becattse they support the position that movement away Jimn the homogeneous "good old boy," Caucasian, rurctl-dominated correctiomd ~([icer staff toward a more diverse sta[f has, in fiwt, led to recruitment of individuals who hold more positive ctttitude.s toward treatnlent progranls, Contrary to e_~pectations, a ~'ignificant difference was not Jound between the attitudes ~['male and female correctional e~Oqcers. © •997 Elsevier Science Ltd
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