When was the prison officer role created? Flashcards
When was the prison officer role created?
1900’s
Historically…
the prison officer was simply a turnkey…
daily routine…
was very similiar for the keeper and the kept (O’Brien)
What was the Mount Batten Report?
Greater prison officer recruitment needed. Found inadequate security and the need for career development
Woolf Report?
(1991) Considered prison officer morale - “division and distrust existed between all prison staff..labour under a blanket of depression”
Goffman’s Asylums
Inmate world vs the staff world. ‘Sanction violence’ to protect the division. Gulf created between policy makers and those ‘on the ground.’
What is organisational culture?
Unwritten rules that influence individuals and groups - their behaviour and attitudes
What is Occupational Culture?
Shared norms, values and beliefs associated with a particular job
Organisational - processes?
Formal processes? Training and probation
Occupational - processes?
Informal processes - ‘jailcracft’ the customs and practices
Crawley and Crawley
“recruit will revise their ideas about the type of officer they want to be.”
Scott 2007 Typologies
Careerist, Humanitarian, Disciplinarian, Mortgage Payer
Crawley and Crawley
“us” and “them” - purely to contain society’s “misfits”
Occupational
Humour to cope, ‘switch off’ - increased comeraderie
Liebling
officers develop skills, diplomacy and ‘peace-making’ work
