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