RT Article
T1 Misconduct Within the "Four Walls": Does Organizational Justice Matter in Explaining Prison Officers' Misconduct and Job Stress?
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 63
IS 2
SP 289
OP 308
A1 Boateng, Francis D.
A1 Hsieh, Ming-Li
A2 Hsieh, Ming-Li
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1667544217
AB Primarily, this article examines the role of organizational justice in understanding prison officers' behavior. The authors surveyed 169 correctional officers across five correctional facilities in Ghana to explore the role of three organizational justice dimensions in prison misconduct and job stress. Results from the negative binomial and ordinal logistic analyses revealed the significant contributions of two dimensions of organizational justice in explaining misconduct and stress among officers. Officers who had higher perceptions of distributive fairness and interaction in the organization had lower odds of receiving misconduct-related complaints. Also, greater interaction was found to be associated with reduced job stress among prison officers. In addition, several officers' characteristics were found to predict the number of times officers received misconduct complaints.
K1 Ghana
K1 Prison
K1 Corrections
K1 Organization
K1 Justice
K1 Misconduct
K1 Distributive
K1 Procedural
K1 Fairness
K1 Interaction
K1 Strafvollzug
K1 Gefängnis
DO 10.1177/0306624X18780941