‘That Doesn’t Leave You’: Psychological Dirt and Taint in Prison Officers’ Occupational Cultures and Identities
This article examines the conceptualization of prison officers as psychologically ‘dirty’. It defines the novel ‘psychological taint’ and taint management strategies in their occupational cultures. Drawing on ethnographic data, psychological taint’s three sources are identified as the psychological...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2022
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The British journal of criminology
Year: 2022, Volume: 62, Issue: 4, Pages: 982-999 |
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