Gender and Prison Work

The Experience of Female Provincial Correctional Officers in Canada

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21373216
AutoresRosemary Ricciardelli (0000-0002-0905-8968, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, autor correspondente), Laura Mckendy (0000-0003-4450-5281, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada)
Ano2020
Volume100
Fascículo5
Páginas617-639
Data de publicação2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Prison Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0032-8855 • E-ISSN: 1552-7522
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0032885520956394
OpenAlexW3083309115
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas44

Drawing on the accounts of female correctional officers working in Canadian prisons, we explore how gender identity influences the work orientations and social relationships of female officers and their interpretations of working with male and female prisoners. We suggest that female officers tend to pursue correctional work in a way that incorporates traits culturally associated with femininity and that relies on gendered understandings of prisoners’ dispositions and needs. In general, female officers’ accounts suggest that feminine identity operates as both a liability and currency in the context of prison work, albeit for reasons that vary across women and men’s prison

Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Femininity · Identity (music) · Prison · Sociology · Work (physics) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology