Professor and Coordinator of Criminology, Memorial University, St. John's, Canada
Professor of Sociology, Memorial University, St. John's, Canada.
Violence Vict. 2020 Feb 1;35(1):88-107. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-18-00081.
Internationally, researchers studying correctional officer (CO) work have examined CO self-presentation, staff-prisoner relationships, and emotional labor. We build on this research by drawing on occupational literature to examine officer mental health outcomes that result from correctional work. We examine the impact of working in prison on COs' well-being, paying particular attention to aspects of the work content (operational stressors) and context (organizational stressors). In conducting semi-structured interviews with COs in Atlantic Canada, we found that COs identified a number of operational stressors as impacting their mental health, specifically generalized violence among prisoners, direct and vicarious violence, and ongoing harassment. COs identified organizational stressors, including a work culture that discourages visible emotional responses to operational stressors, a lack of support from management, and inadequate procedures for dealing with workplace violence and harassment, as factors that exacerbate and contribute to negative mental health outcomes.
在国际上，研究狱警工作的研究人员研究了狱警的自我呈现、员工-囚犯关系和情绪劳动。我们借鉴职业文献，研究了因监狱工作而导致的狱警心理健康结果。我们考察了在监狱工作对狱警福祉的影响，特别关注工作内容（业务压力源）和环境（组织压力源）的各个方面。在对加拿大大西洋沿岸的狱警进行半结构化访谈时，我们发现狱警确定了一些业务压力源会对他们的心理健康产生影响，特别是囚犯的普遍暴力、直接和间接暴力以及持续骚扰。狱警还确定了组织压力源，包括一种不鼓励对业务压力源表现出明显情绪反应的工作文化、缺乏管理层的支持以及处理工作场所暴力和骚扰的程序不足，这些因素加剧和促成了负面的心理健康结果。
