Prison Officers International Perspectives on Prison Work

1.      Introduction

Helen Arnold, Matthew Maycock and Rosemary Ricciardelli

PART I: Prison Officer Interpretations and Performances of Power and Authority

2.      The moral value of authority: Reflections on the work of prison officers

Alison Liebling

3.      Ukrainian prison officers and their power

Anton Symkovych

4.      French prison officers’ legal socialization: ‘The law, yes; prisoners’ rights, no’

Martine Herzog-Evans and Jerome Thomas

5.      Proxy governance in (post) colonial prisons: When prison officers delegate power to prisoners

Tomas Max Martin and Andrew M. Jefferson

PART II: Prison Officer Identities and Workplace Cultures

6.      Dirty work and beyond: Representations of Prison Officers in Prison Films

Jamie Bennett

7.      “It’s a very clannish type of job”: Entitativity and identity in prison officers’ occupational cultures and identities

Joe Garrihy

8.      ‘Friendly but not friends’ or ‘Never trust the bastards’? Staff-prisoner interaction styles in Australia and Norway

Anna Eriksson

9.      “It is important to be a prison officer and have trade union back up”: Exploring trade union membership within the Scottish Prison Service

Katrina Morrison and Matthew Maycock

10.  The prison officer in post-soviet Russia

Judith Pallot

PART III: Implications of Prison Policy and Management for the Role of Prison Officers

11.  “Prison officers should be treated fairly”: Perceptions and experiences of fairness among prison officers in Ghana

Thomas Akoensi

12.  Do risk-reducing measures only reduce risk? Prison officer work with risk-reducing measures in the imprisonment of a high-risk prisoner

Knut Sørensen

13.  Farewell to exceptionalism: An analysis of Swedish prisons officers’ attitudes towards prison policy, organisation, and their occupational role in 2009 and 2019

Anders Bruhn and Per Åke Nylander

14.  The role of prison officers in transforming prisoners’ lives in Hong Kong

Wing Hong Chui, Aaron H.L. Wong, Henry Kao, and Frank Wong

15.  Locating Prison Officers in the prison reforms discourse: Insights from India

Vijay Raghaven

PART IV: Working Conditions and Prison Officer Well-Being

Rosemary Ricciardelli, Marcella Siqueira Cassiano and Gillian Foley

17.  Fear and perceived risk among correctional officers

Makeela J. Wells, Stacy H. Haynes and David C. May

18.  Prison Officers and their Work Routine in Brazilian Prisons

Francisco De Melo Nascimento

19.  Conclusion: Towards a new research agenda to analyse the contemporary prison officer role

Matthew Maycock, Rosemary Ricciardelli and Helen Arnold

Helen Arnold is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Matthew Maycock is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University, Australia.

Rosemary Ricciardelli is Professor and Research Chair in Safety, Security, and Wellness at the Fisheries and Marine Institute at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.