I Can't Get No Satisfaction! An Examination of Correctional Officers' Perceptions of Staff-Inmate Boundary Violations and Willingness to Follow Institutional Rules within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2153175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert M Worley (Lamar University, corresponding author), Eric G Lambert (0000-0002-9315-2294, Department of Criminal Justice, The University of Nevada, Reno, USA), Vidisha Barua Worley (Lamar University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1007-1019 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deviant Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01639625.2018.1456714 |
| OpenAlex | W2796267029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 62 |
Most correctional officers adhere to strong organizational norms that emphasize the importance of following rules. Some, however, break the custodial frame and behave inappropriately with inmates. Guided by Robert K. Merton's social structure and anomie theory, we examined 501 questionnaires collected from correctional officers within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. When correctional officers perceive that their coworkers engage in boundary violations with inmates, job satisfaction is significantly lower. Our novel application of Merton's framework makes a contribution to the correctional job satisfaction literature and has important implications for the contemporary development and significance of social structure and anomie theory
Alienation · Anomie · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Job satisfaction · Perception · Political science · Procedural justice · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |