scholarly journals Corrigendum to “Anything Can Happen at Any Time.” Perceived Causes of Correctional Officer Injuries

2021 ◽  
pp. 073401682110444
Keyword(s):  
Correctional Officer

The Assessment of Resilience and Burnout in Correctional Officers

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 1213-1233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera A. Klinoff ◽  
Vincent B. Van Hasselt ◽  
Ryan A. Black ◽  
Estefania V. Masias ◽  
Judy Couwels
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Correctional Officers ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
Correctional Officer ◽  
Personal Strengths ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Detention Facilities

Despite the awareness of occupational stress in first responders, virtually no investigations have focused on correctional officer resilience. The purpose of this study was to (a) identify whether personal strengths (i.e., hope, optimism, social support) are associated with increased resilience, (b) determine the extent to which resilience protects against job burnout, and (c) ascertain whether resilience mediates the negative relationship between personal strengths and reduced burnout. Correctional officers ( N = 300) were randomly selected across five detention facilities. Meditational analyses examined the relationship between personal strengths and burnout, through the construct of resilience. Results revealed hope, optimism, and social support are significantly associated with reduced burnout, and that this relationship is mediated by resilience. These results suggest that personal strengths can reduce burnout in correctional officers by increasing resilience. This is the first study to examine the effects of these positive psychology variables on burnout in a correctional officer population.

SURVIVING “THE JOINT”: MITIGATING FACTORS OF CORRECTIONAL OFFICER STRESS

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth L. Grossi ◽  
Thomas J. Keil ◽  
Gennaro F. Vito
Keyword(s):  
Correctional Officer ◽  
Mitigating Factors

Validity of the Basic Personality Inventory in a Correctional Setting

Assessment ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daryl G. Kroner ◽  
Ronald R. Holden ◽  
John R. Reddon
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Emotional Adjustment ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Correctional Officer ◽  
Institutional Adjustment ◽  
Correctional Setting ◽  
Male Offenders ◽  
Security Institution ◽  
Convergent And Discriminant Validity ◽  
Adult Male Offenders

This study investigates the validity of the Basic Personality Inventory (BPI) with a sample of 101 adult male offenders in a medium security institution. The criterion measures consisted of self-ratings (i.e., bipolar dimensional and adjective ratings), correctional officer ratings, and institutional adjustment (i.e., contact with medical staff, verbal warnings, institutional charges, days segregated, and cell maintenance). The majority of the scales corresponded well to the self-ratings. The Denial, Persecutory Ideation, Anxiety, and Thinking Disorder scales had poor convergent and discriminant validity with the correctional officer ratings. Interpersonal Problems, Alienation, and Impulse Expression scales predicted behavioral adjustment indexes. The results are summarized in relation to the higher order factors of emotional adjustment, antisocial orientation, cognitive functioning, and social or self-perception. Overall, the BPI scales adequately measure psychopathology and adjustment within a correctional setting.

Fear of infectious diseases and perceived contagion risk count as an occupational health and safety hazard: Accounts from correctional officer recruits in Canada

2021 ◽  
pp. 263380762110582
Author(s):  
Marcella Siqueira Cassiano ◽  
Fatih Ozturk ◽  
Rosemary Ricciardelli
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Correctional Officers ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Labor Policy ◽  
Correctional Officer ◽  
Stress Injury ◽  
Operational Stress ◽  
Contagion Risk

Prisons are poorly ventilated confined spaces with limited physical distancing opportunities, making an environment conducive to the spread of infectious diseases. Based on empirical research with correctional officer recruits in Canada, we analyze the reasons and sources of fear, and the measures that recruits adopt to counter their fear of contagion. Our study marks an advance in the correctional work literature, which, to date, has tended to view perceived contagion risks as a workplace challenge that can be overcome with occupational skill and experience. In contrast with the existing literature, we present fear and perceived contagion risk as an “operational stress injury” that affects all correctional officers; a structural occupational health and safety problem that needs redressing from the labor policy perspective.

“Anything Can Happen at Any Time”: Perceived Causes of Correctional Officer Injuries

2020 ◽  
pp. 073401682095252
Author(s):  
Natalie Goulette ◽  
Andrew S. Denney ◽  
Matthew S. Crow
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Correctional Officers ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Correctional Officer ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Executive Staff ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Prior research finds that correctional officers (COs) often report high levels of stress, poor mental and physical health and are at an increased risk of suffering work-related injuries. However, little is known about the causes of such injuries. In an attempt to fill this large gap in the literature, the current study used qualitative data to explore the perceived causes of work-related injuries according to COs and their executive staff. Officers identified the reasons for injuries as either within their control or outside of their control. Injuries resulting from factors within CO’s control were perceived to be related to complacency and corruption. Injuries stemming from circumstances outside of CO’s control were perceived to be related to the nature of the job, the mental health of inmates, minor events escalating, and what are known as inmate “check-ins.” In consideration of these findings, policy implications and directions for future research are also reviewed.

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