Marcella Siqueira Cassiano
Biographic Data
| ID | 6213596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcella Siqueira Cassiano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcella Siqueira |
| FAMILY NAME | Cassiano |
| SIGNATURE | CASSIANO M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8399-4431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The First Year Behind Bars: Trauma and Shifts in Correctional Officer Orientation
This study explores how correctional officer (CO) orientations evolve during the first year of employment and the role of trauma in shaping these shifts. Drawing on interviews with 47 Canadian federal recruits from the Correctional Workers Well-Being, Organizations, Roles, and Knowledge (CCWORK) project, we thematically coded narratives and analyzed orientation trajectories with descriptive statistics, Sankey diagrams, and chi-square tests. Resul…
Correctional Officers’ Perspectives on Canada’s Correctional Training Program
Guarding the Stigmatized: The Rationales Shaping Correctional Officer Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders
Stigma toward individuals convicted of sexual offenses has long been a focus of prison research, particularly given the crucial role correctional officers play in maintaining prisoner safety and rehabilitation. A Weberian-inspired typology captures the core meaning structures organizing officers’ attitudes toward sex offenders through three constructs: purposeful blindness, disgust, and security cautiousness. By distinguishing these attitudinal t…
Interpretations of Safety Among Correctional Officers in the Canadian Federal Prison System: A Longitudinal Analysis
Canadian Provincial and Territorial Correctional Worker Mental Health and Well-Being Study (CWMH): Navigating Practical and Unanticipated Methodological Challenges
Previous research assessing correctional worker (CW) mental health has seldom assessed for differences based on jurisdiction or diverse occupational categories. The current study was designed to provide a nuanced quantitative examination of mental health disorder prevalence and related problems among CWs and to qualitatively explore the varying social contexts surrounding CW well-being. We reflect on how we overcame unanticipated challenges and d…
Sources of stress among Federal Correctional Officers in Canada
Most correctional officers describe their jobs as stressful. The current study advances the scholarship on correctional stress by offering a rare qualitative analysis that identifies, provides meaning, and contextualizes sources of stress in correctional services. This study complements the correctional stress literature, which, until now, has relied primarily on quantitative methodologies to identify and assess stress determinants. Forty-four co…
Exposures to correctional-specific potentially psychologically traumatic events among Ontario provincial correctional workers
Eliminating PPTE exposures is unlikely in the correctional environment; nevertheless, the results indicate that mitigating PPTEs may drastically improve the mental health of correctional workers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
The Mental Health and Wellness of Correctional Officers in Canada: Programs and Practices
Correctional work includes dealing with numerous stressors that compromise mental health. Yet, correctional scholars have dedicated limited attention to assessing the mental health support available to correctional officers at work. Therefore, we explore how officers view mental health programs, especially the Employee Assistant Program (EAP) and the Critical Incident Stress Management Program (CISM). Our findings derive from 44 semi-structured i…
What it takes to be a “Good” correctional officer: Occupational fitness and co-worker expectations from the perspective of correctional officer recruits in Canada
Selecting individuals who are the right "fit" for correctional work is not an easy task for prison administrators because of the dangerous nature of correctional work and the centrality of prison employees in the prisoner's rehabilitation process. We analyze fitness for correctional work from the employee's perspective, complementing the scholarship focused on the employer's view. We measure occupational fitness in terms of co-worker expectations…
China’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Surveillance and Autonomy
Pandemics bring the specter of death, disruption, and despair, but historically they have also been engines for social transformations visible at almost every level of society For scholars interested in understanding contemporary surveillance dynamics, the COVID-19 pandemic encourages thinking about how different forms of monitoring have altered aspects of the global infectious disease response and what these developments might suggest about the …
China’s Hukou Platform: Windows into the Family
When news media in the UK and US discuss China’s surveillance networks, it is often to imply that the Chinese government is creating a “techno-authoritarian state” to track and monitor its citizens. News outlets, however, are missing a larger point. The specific problem with China’s surveillance apparatus is not that it is technologically “totalizing” and “intrusive,” but that it relies on a newly digitized information platform that connects surv…
The Reform of China’s Household Registration System: Authoritarianism with Liberal Characteristics
Under China’s legacy high-socialism and planned economy, the Household Registration System endures as a coercive institutional mechanism that collects information on Chinese citizens for six decades. But, today’s hukou is markedly different from that of previous decades. Contemporary hukou practices have shifted to accommodate freedom of choice and the opportunity to deal with the risks and responsibilities associated with this right. This shift …
China’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Surveillance and Autonomy
Pandemics bring the specter of death, disruption, and despair, but historically they have also been engines for social transformations visible at almost every level of society For scholars interested in understanding contemporary surveillance dynamics, the COVID-19 pandemic encourages thinking about how different forms of monitoring have altered aspects of the global infectious disease response and what these developments might suggest about the …
What it takes to be a “Good” correctional officer: Occupational fitness and co-worker expectations from the perspective of correctional officer recruits in Canada
Selecting individuals who are the right "fit" for correctional work is not an easy task for prison administrators because of the dangerous nature of correctional work and the centrality of prison employees in the prisoner's rehabilitation process. We analyze fitness for correctional work from the employee's perspective, complementing the scholarship focused on the employer's view. We measure occupational fitness in terms of co-worker expectations…
China’s Hukou Platform: Windows into the Family
When news media in the UK and US discuss China’s surveillance networks, it is often to imply that the Chinese government is creating a “techno-authoritarian state” to track and monitor its citizens. News outlets, however, are missing a larger point. The specific problem with China’s surveillance apparatus is not that it is technologically “totalizing” and “intrusive,” but that it relies on a newly digitized information platform that connects surv…
The Reform of China’s Household Registration System: Authoritarianism with Liberal Characteristics
Under China’s legacy high-socialism and planned economy, the Household Registration System endures as a coercive institutional mechanism that collects information on Chinese citizens for six decades. But, today’s hukou is markedly different from that of previous decades. Contemporary hukou practices have shifted to accommodate freedom of choice and the opportunity to deal with the risks and responsibilities associated with this right. This shift …
The Reform of China’s Household Registration System: Authoritarianism with Liberal Characteristics
Under China’s legacy high-socialism and planned economy, the Household Registration System endures as a coercive institutional mechanism that collects information on Chinese citizens for six decades. But, today’s hukou is markedly different from that of previous decades. Contemporary hukou practices have shifted to accommodate freedom of choice and the opportunity to deal with the risks and responsibilities associated with this right. This shift …
China’s Hukou Platform: Windows into the Family
When news media in the UK and US discuss China’s surveillance networks, it is often to imply that the Chinese government is creating a “techno-authoritarian state” to track and monitor its citizens. News outlets, however, are missing a larger point. The specific problem with China’s surveillance apparatus is not that it is technologically “totalizing” and “intrusive,” but that it relies on a newly digitized information platform that connects surv…
China’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Surveillance and Autonomy
Pandemics bring the specter of death, disruption, and despair, but historically they have also been engines for social transformations visible at almost every level of society For scholars interested in understanding contemporary surveillance dynamics, the COVID-19 pandemic encourages thinking about how different forms of monitoring have altered aspects of the global infectious disease response and what these developments might suggest about the …
The Mental Health and Wellness of Correctional Officers in Canada: Programs and Practices
Correctional work includes dealing with numerous stressors that compromise mental health. Yet, correctional scholars have dedicated limited attention to assessing the mental health support available to correctional officers at work. Therefore, we explore how officers view mental health programs, especially the Employee Assistant Program (EAP) and the Critical Incident Stress Management Program (CISM). Our findings derive from 44 semi-structured i…
What it takes to be a “Good” correctional officer: Occupational fitness and co-worker expectations from the perspective of correctional officer recruits in Canada
Selecting individuals who are the right "fit" for correctional work is not an easy task for prison administrators because of the dangerous nature of correctional work and the centrality of prison employees in the prisoner's rehabilitation process. We analyze fitness for correctional work from the employee's perspective, complementing the scholarship focused on the employer's view. We measure occupational fitness in terms of co-worker expectations…
Sources of stress among Federal Correctional Officers in Canada
Most correctional officers describe their jobs as stressful. The current study advances the scholarship on correctional stress by offering a rare qualitative analysis that identifies, provides meaning, and contextualizes sources of stress in correctional services. This study complements the correctional stress literature, which, until now, has relied primarily on quantitative methodologies to identify and assess stress determinants. Forty-four co…
Exposures to correctional-specific potentially psychologically traumatic events among Ontario provincial correctional workers
Eliminating PPTE exposures is unlikely in the correctional environment; nevertheless, the results indicate that mitigating PPTEs may drastically improve the mental health of correctional workers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Canadian Provincial and Territorial Correctional Worker Mental Health and Well-Being Study (CWMH): Navigating Practical and Unanticipated Methodological Challenges
Previous research assessing correctional worker (CW) mental health has seldom assessed for differences based on jurisdiction or diverse occupational categories. The current study was designed to provide a nuanced quantitative examination of mental health disorder prevalence and related problems among CWs and to qualitatively explore the varying social contexts surrounding CW well-being. We reflect on how we overcame unanticipated challenges and d…
Interpretations of Safety Among Correctional Officers in the Canadian Federal Prison System: A Longitudinal Analysis
The First Year Behind Bars: Trauma and Shifts in Correctional Officer Orientation
This study explores how correctional officer (CO) orientations evolve during the first year of employment and the role of trauma in shaping these shifts. Drawing on interviews with 47 Canadian federal recruits from the Correctional Workers Well-Being, Organizations, Roles, and Knowledge (CCWORK) project, we thematically coded narratives and analyzed orientation trajectories with descriptive statistics, Sankey diagrams, and chi-square tests. Resul…
Correctional Officers’ Perspectives on Canada’s Correctional Training Program
Guarding the Stigmatized: The Rationales Shaping Correctional Officer Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders
Stigma toward individuals convicted of sexual offenses has long been a focus of prison research, particularly given the crucial role correctional officers play in maintaining prisoner safety and rehabilitation. A Weberian-inspired typology captures the core meaning structures organizing officers’ attitudes toward sex offenders through three constructs: purposeful blindness, disgust, and security cautiousness. By distinguishing these attitudinal t…
Political science (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works) · China (3 works) · Law (3 works)