RT Article T1 In Search of Generativity in Prison Officer Work: balancing Care and Control in Custodial Settings JF The prison journal VO 97 IS 1 SP 52 OP 78 A1 Halsey, Mark A2 Deegan, Simone LA English YR 2017 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1741700663 AB Generativity, defined as the actions of an individual or group that enable others to care in meaningful ways for themselves and their significant others, has become an important concept for thinking about desistance from crime. In this article, we explore opportunities for prison officers in metropolitan and regional South Australia to model and/or engage in generative conduct. We find the emergence of generativity to be idiosyncratic—linked to individual officer’s capacities to resist the dominant “us” versus “them” culture—and to be often thwarted by a fatalistic outlook. Correctional policy implications are discussed. K1 Prison officers K1 Generativity K1 Officer culture K1 Care K1 Control DO 10.1177/0032885516679380