Inmate responses to correctional officer deviance: a model of its dynamic nature

The relationship between correctional officers (COs) and prisoners isdynamic and bounded by a unique context. COs engage in numeroussanctioned and unsanctioned behaviors within their correctional institu-tion. The latter actions are typically referred to as deviant behavior. COs’deviance can have a...

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Authors: Ross, Jeffrey Ian (Author) ; Tewksbury, Richard (Author) ; Rolfe, Shawn M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
In: Corrections
Year: 2016, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-15
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Keywords:
Prisons
Prisoners
Correctional Officers
prisoner behavior
workplace deviance/misconduct
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Summary:The relationship between correctional officers (COs) and prisoners isdynamic and bounded by a unique context. COs engage in numeroussanctioned and unsanctioned behaviors within their correctional institu-tion. The latter actions are typically referred to as deviant behavior. COs’deviance can have a debilitating effect not only on other officers, correc-tional workers, the administration, but also inmates and the institution asa whole. This article specifies a model of the interaction between COs’deviance and inmate reactions to these kinds of behaviors. In general, thestudy argues that convicts can respond in four different, but interrelatedways: obedience or deference to authority, apathy, adaptation, and resis-tance. Acts of prisoners resisting can further lead to COs’deviant beha-viors to continue within the correctional institution.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 11-15
Auch erschienen unter: https://doi.org/10.1080/23774657.2016.1178082
ISSN:2377-4665