نتایج جستجو برای: prison staff

تعداد نتایج: 77740  

Journal: :BMJ 2003
Jo Nurse Paul Woodcock Jim Ormsby

OBJECTIVE To increase understanding of how the prison environment influences the mental health of prisoners and prison staff. DESIGN Qualitative study with focus groups. SETTING A local prison in southern England. PARTICIPANTS Prisoners and prison staff. RESULTS Prisoners reported that long periods of isolation with little mental stimulus contributed to poor mental health and led to int...

Journal: :International journal of prisoner health 2011
Rachael Dixey James Woodall

PURPOSE This paper aims to discuss some of the obstacles to implementing policy and strategy related to health promoting prisons. It focuses on the role of prison officers and raises issues concerning their conditions of service, training and organisational culture in a situation where the prison system faces security issues, overcrowding and high levels of ill health among prisoners. DESIGN/...

2013
Avdi S. Avdija

This article investigates the multivariate relationship between personal characteristics of prison staff, their work rank within the organizational hierarchy, working conditions, constraints of personal accomplishment, stressresponse states, and the emotional exhaustion. Specifically, this study attempts to determine the amount of variation that can be explained in emotional exhaustion, the mai...

Journal: :International Journal of Prisoner Health 2011

ژورنال: طب کار 2014

Background: The prison is one of environments that its staff always deal with stress and different sources of stress. Exposure to stress, causing deleterious effects on physical and mental health of staff and productivity of organizations. The aims of this study was survey of stress and work-related stressors among prison staff. Methods: The subjects were 177 employees of the Prison staff of I...

Journal: :Health promotion practice 2013
James Woodall

Prisons are seen as a (temporary) home and community for offenders, yet they also have a dual role as a workplace for prison staff. This article explores how the "healthy settings" philosophy, commonly used in schools, applies in the prison environment. The article explores the concept of the health-promoting prison from the perspective of prison staff using semistructured interviews in three E...

Journal: :journal of research in health sciences 0
ahmad heidari pahlavian rostam golmohammadi gholamhosein sadri abbas zamanian

background: since anxiety, depression and job satisfaction are considered elements related to mental health, the main objective of the present study is to survey the prison staff on the said elements. methods: the population of the study was all of the officially employed staff of the prison. (104 prisons) 80.7% of the persons who filled the questionnaires up were among the disciplinary force s...

2013
Valerie M. Gonsalves Kate Walsh Mario J. Scalora

Since the inception of the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003, increased attention has been directed toward identifying and eliminating acts of institutional sexual violence. However, few empirical studies have systematically explored risk factors that staff perceive as important when ascertaining risk for prison sexual perpetration and victimization. This study examined ratings from 10 staff ...

2017
Jafar Akbari Rouhollah Akbari Mahnaz Shakerian Behzad Mahaki

INTRODUCTION Job stress can impose significant costs to the workplaces and organizations due to some issues such as absenteeism, less productivity, and medical costs. Job overload and lack of decision latitude can lead to job stress. The current study aimed to investigate the job demands and control as predictor of job stress and its relationship, with some of the demographic characteristics of...

Journal: :International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology 2015
Karin A Beijersbergen Anja J E Dirkzwager Toon Molleman Peter H van der Laan Paul Nieuwbeerta

A humane and fair treatment of prisoners is of intrinsic value in itself, and is generally acclaimed to reduce prisoners' psychological distress and misconduct in prison, and their criminal behavior after release from prison. To create a more just prison climate, scholars have emphasized the importance of correctional staff. However, there is a lack of empirical research on the relationship bet...

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