NCJ Number
101495
Journal
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency Volume: 23 Issue: 1 Dated: (February 1986) Pages: 23-42
Date Published
1986
Length
20 pages
Annotation
A path model of job burnout among correctional officers from a southern State is examined.
Abstract
The analyses show that direct contact with inmates is not distressing; however, administrative practices are bothersome to officers. The findings may be interpreted as supporting the recently advanced double-bind theory of correctional officer stress (Cheek and Miller, 1983) -- which ascribes officer distress to administrative practices -and/or being consistent with street-level bureaucracy theory (Lipsky, 1980), which attributes worker distress to managerial control strategies. Implications for intervention are discussed. (Author abstract)