RT Article
T1 Gender and prison work: the experience of female provincial correctional officers in Canada
JF The prison journal
VO 100
IS 5
SP 611
OP 639
A1 Ricciardelli, Rosemary
A2 McKendy, Laura
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1800504675
AB Drawing on the accounts of female correctional officers working in Canadian prisons, we explore how gender identity influences the work orientations and social relationships of female officers and their interpretations of working with male and female prisoners. We suggest that female officers tend to pursue correctional work in a way that incorporates traits culturally associated with femininity and that relies on gendered understandings of prisoners’ dispositions and needs. In general, female officers’ accounts suggest that feminine identity operates as both a liability and currency in the context of prison work, albeit for reasons that vary across women and men’s prison.
K1 Occupational work culture
K1 Correctional officer culture
K1 Gender and corrections
K1 Prison studies
DO 10.1177/0032885520956394