Deconstructing Correctional Officer Deviance

Correctional Officer Rating of Prisoner Adjustment on Entry to Prison

The aim of this longitudinal research was to assess and monitor adjustment (operationalised in terms of anxiety) of 60 prisoners as they entered prison and one month later. Results confirmed very high levels of anxiety on admission, which reduced after one month, but still remained significantly higher than adult population norms. Given that Correctional Officers (COs) play an integral role in ...

Correctional Officer Burnout, Absenteeism, and Physical Health through a Salutogenic Lens: Understanding the Roles of Coworker Interactions and Individual Resilience

Social Deviance

This book is one of a series now being placed upon the market, dealing with b"1 psychiatric ill health and delinquent behaviour as part of a general social disor^ The author, Mr. Wilkins, from his recent position in the Home Office Research U1" was in a unique position to survey both fields. This book contains the product of ̂ fertile brain, whilst visiting the United States recently as a visiti...

PT743. Mental Health status of Correctional Officers in Correctional Institutions

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the association between circadian types, temperament, and character. Methods: We analyze the data obtained from a total of 2910 students who undertook the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and the Composite Scale of MorningnessEveningness (CSM). According to the CSM score, the circadian types were classified as the morning type (MT), neith...

Deconstructing SYNtax

There are at least two distinct ways of conceiving of syntax: the set of rules that enable speakers and listeners to combine the meaning of expressions (compositional syntax), or the set of formal constraints on the combinations of expressions (formal syntax). The question that occupies us in this paper is whether all languages include a significant formal syntax component or whether there are ...