Stress and the correctional officer / Kelly Cheeseman Dial.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheeseman, Kelly.

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice : recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Correctional personnel--United States.

Correctional personnel.

Correctional personnel--Job stress--United States.

Job satisfaction.

Stress (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dial examines correctional officer stress and job satisfaction.

Contents:

CONTENTS; List of Tables; CHAPTER 1: A Brief Overview of Corrections and theCorrectional Officer; A Brief History of Correctional Institutions; Court Review and Legal Shaping of Modern Prison; The Institutional Environment; The Building/Facility; The Correctional Officer; CHAPTER 2: The Backbone of Today's CorrectionalInstitution: The Correctional Officer; Job Qualifications; "The Job": Correctional Officer Duty Positions andDaily Work; The Correctional Officer Subculture: Fact or Fiction?; CHAPTER 3: Theories of correctional officer roles,stress and job satisfaction; Introduction to Stress

Job DangerRole Conflict; Social Support and Stress; Organizational Stressors; Experience, Education, and Stress; Gender and stress; Conclusion; CHAPTER 4: The Results of the Current Study; Preliminary Work and Survey Development; CHAPTER 5: Policy Implications for Policy andFuture Research; Work Stress; Policy Implications; Agency Assessment; The Future of Correctional Employment: Suggestionsfor Future Research; Appendix; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593326555

1593326556

OCLC:

818819054