CRIM 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Subculture, Cytochrome C Oxidase Subunit I, Main Source

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 241
• Professor: Daniellenull Brown

Document Summary

Roles and responsibilities: co roles have become more complex and challenging, security dynamic and static, service looking after inmate needs, helping inmates adjust to life inside, helping inmates prepare to re-enter community. Desirable attributes of cos: setting consistent boundaries, communicating well, showing moral integrity, exercising power and authority fairly, understanding the challenges faced by inmates ignore the swearing, being optimistic in a difficult environment. Recruitment and training: correctional service of canada, five regions recruit, select, assess, and hire cos according to national standards, special process for selecting and training staff to work in institutions for women, provincial/territorial training, no national training standards. Patterns of relationships among cos: normative code of behaviour, features include always assist fellow officers, defer to experience of veteran. Cos: factors that contribute to solidarity include: potential for injury, reliance on one another, subculture of cos is not monolithic, for many cos, their co-workers are the main source of stress.