Attitudinal and Demographic Differences between Male and Female Corrections Officers

Walters, Stephen

doi:10.1300/j076v18n01_08

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“…Negotiating appropriate roles for themselves within the prison, women tend to take on less masculine tasks such as advocating and caring for inmates, assisting education and treatment programs, and performing administrative duties. Female prison officers are more likely than males to support a human service or rehabilitative approach to imprisonment (Jurik 1985;Walters 1992). Taken together, female officers in these studies conform to ''emphasized femininity'' (Connell 1987).…”

Section: Doing Gendermentioning

confidence: 79%

Gender Diversity and the Prospects for Progressive Prison Reform

Hussemann

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2011

Women & Criminal Justice

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Section: Doing Gendermentioning

confidence: 79%

Gender Diversity and the Prospects for Progressive Prison Reform

Hussemann

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2011

Women & Criminal Justice

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“…Jurik (1985) found that women had a more service-orientated, rehabilitative attitude towards their job, whereas men regard their work more in terms of financial and job security. Similarly, Walters (1992) found that men had a more custodial attitude than women officers as measured by the Custody Orientation Scale. However, research has also shown little gender difference with regard to attitudes towards prisoners (Zupan, 1986), or their responses and actions to minor incidents (Jenne and Kersting, 1998).…”

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confidence: 87%

Is gender a factor in perceived prison officer competence? Male prisoners' perceptions in an English dispersal prison

Boyd¹,

Grant

2005

Criminal Behav. Ment. Health

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The failure to find any differences between men and women in overall job competence, or on communication, empathy and discipline, as perceived by prisoners, suggests that men and women may be performing their jobs similarly in many respects. Women were rated as more professional, and items contributing to this scale related to respecting privacy and keeping calm in difficult situations, where there may be inherent gender biases.

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“…Unfortunately, although there has been a great deal of research examining the role orientation of correctional staff, and the impact of variables such as race, age, gender, and years of service on staff attitudes toward their job (e.g., see Bazemore & Dicker, 1994;Crouch & Alpert, 1982;Hemmens & Stohr, in press;Hepburn & Albonetti, 1980;Lombardo, 1989;Poole & Regoli, 1980;Walters, 1992;Whitehead & Lindquist, 1989;Zupan, 1986), there has been little research that focuses on the ethical behaviors and perceptions of correctional staff.…”

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We Know it, We Just Have to Do it: Perceptions of Ethical Work in Prisons and Jails

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Determining what the appropriate behavior is in any given circumstance is not always clear in corrections work, given the nature of the tasks, the composition of the clientele, and the structure of the organization. In an effort to determine what correctional staff regarded as ethical behavior, the authors developed and administered a questionnaire to correctional staff in several prisons and jails in a western state. In this article, the authors report their findings from the effort to quantify the degree to which staff agree and disagree in their perceptions of ethical choices. They found that jail and prison staffs are more likely than not to perceive their work from an ethical perspective. The findings also indicate that although both types of facilities were in the top range of possible responses on the ethics summary variable, the jail staff were more likely to score higher. Finally, age increased the likelihood that a respondent had a higher ethical rating in jails, and being female increased such a score in prisons.

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Attitudinal and Demographic Differences between Male and Female Corrections Officers

Cited by 39 publications

References 9 publications

Gender Diversity and the Prospects for Progressive Prison Reform

Gender Diversity and the Prospects for Progressive Prison Reform

Is gender a factor in perceived prison officer competence? Male prisoners' perceptions in an English dispersal prison

We Know it, We Just Have to Do it: Perceptions of Ethical Work in Prisons and Jails

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