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"well-written and well-organized, and is prime literature for prison policy-makers, as well as correctional officers and administrators." -- Journal of Loss and Trauma

Description

Dial examines correctional officer stress and job satisfaction. The book is divided into five sections:

1. Overview of Corrections and the Correctional Officer
2. The Backbone of Today’s Correctional Institution: The Correctional Officer
3. Theories of Correctional Officer Roles, Stress, and Job Satisfaction
4. The Results of the Current Study
5. Implications for Policy and Future Research.

The main goal is to expose the reader to what is known about correctional officers’ and correctional officer stress and to present the results of a recent study examining correctional officers in a large correctional system in the United States. Emphasis is on practical policy and research implications for correctional agencies, students and academics. Dial points to the need for correctional officers to have greater access to a variety of resources to cope with and manage the demands of a highly stressful job.

About the Author

Kelly Cheeseman Dial is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Messiah College She received her Ph.D. at Sam Houston State University and worked in corrections for 8 years with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Dial has published numerous research articles on prison and correctional officers and is a co-author of the book, The Death Penalty: Constitutional Issues, Commentaries and Case Briefs 2nd ed. Dial also serves as the Vice-Chair of the Corrections section of ACJS.