CRIM 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Subculture
27 Apr 2018
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Crim 241 – Lecture 5
Chapter 8
Introduction
- Roles and responsibilities
- Recruitment and training
- Going inside: the socialization of new correctional officers (Cos)
- Patterns of relationships among Cos
- A typology of Cos
- Co inmate relationships and patters of accommodation
- The exercise and abuse of power
Roles and Responsibilities
- CO roles have become more complex and challenging
1) Security – dynamic and static
2) Service – looking after inmate needs
3) Helping inmates adjust to life inside
4) 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 limits
- Being optimistic in a difficult environment
Recruitment and Training
- Correctional service of Canada
o Five regions recruit, select, assess, and hire Cos according to national standards
o Special process for selecting and training staff to work in institutions for women
- Provincial/territorial training
Going Inside: The socialization of new Cos
- Little knowledge of what it will be like working in a prison
- Must learn subtle nonverbal cues to read inmates
- Must learn the intricacies of the inmate social system
- Inmates test new Cos
- Cos must gain acceptance from co-workers
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Document Summary
Going inside: the socialization of new correctional officers (cos) Co inmate relationships and patters of accommodation. 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. 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. Little knowledge of what it will be like working in a prison. Must learn subtle nonverbal cues to read inmates. Must learn the intricacies of the inmate social system. 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. For many cos, their co-workers are the main cause of stress. Custodial agenda: control and enforcement activities.
