NDLI: Maximum Security Correctional Officers: An Exploratory Investigation into Their Social Bases of Power

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Ferdik, Frank Valenti Smith, Hayden P.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Correctional officers are responsible for maintaining prison order, establishing institutional security and managing inmate behavior. To accomplish these goals, officers are sometimes required to deploy available bases of power, which are mechanisms of behavioral control used to achieve certain objectives, and include reward, referent, legitimate, coercive and expert. While power bases have been researched at length across numerous organizational settings, they have received comparatively less attention within corrections. Using questionnaire data from a statewide population of maximum security correctional officers (N = 559), several ordered logistic regression models were estimated in order to explore the power bases upon which officers rely the most, as well as the antecedents to this decision. Referent and legitimate power ranked highest concerning their ability to control inmates, while measures of officer risk perceptions and work-related attitudes significantly predicted their power base reliance. To ensure inmate compliance with institutional regulations, it is recommended that correctional officers utilize softer forms of power such as referent and legitimate.
Starting Page	498
Ending Page	521
Page Count	24
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10662316
Journal	American Journal of Criminal Justice
Volume Number	41
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	19361351
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-09-23
Publisher Institution	Southern Criminal Justice Association
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Bases of power Correctional officer Decision-making Risk perceptions Work attitudes Criminology & Criminal Justice
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law

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