SOC371H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Interpersonal Communication, Respiratory System, Scoville Scale
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Discuss some of the main research themes on correctional officers. Highlight how officers are actually disciplined to be docile bodies. Discuss the role of surveillance cameras to correctional work. Explore some of the aspects of correctional officer training. Identify and explain how a winning mentality is produced during correctional officer training. Identify and explain why correctional officer work is inherently risky. Research looks at whether there is a difference between guards who are more rehabilitative or security focused. There has been some research comparing male and female officers ability to do the job. There has been some recent focus on the stressful effects of the job, especially in light of the rising number of inmates with mental health issues. Prison guards are a population that criminologists do not study often. People tend to look more specifically on how the confinement treats the criminal.
