NCJ Number
228482
Journal
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation Volume: 48 Issue: 6 Dated: August-September 2009 Pages: 504-528
Date Published
August 2009
Length
25 pages
Annotation
This study examined the effects of personal characteristics, work environment factors, and work attitudes on correctional staff support for treatment.
Abstract
Results show that among the personal characteristics, only position had a statistically significant association with support for treatment. The custodial staff was less supportive in general, probably as a result of the role they occupy in asserting control over inmates in correctional organizations. Among the work environment variables, job variety, work-on-family conflict, and integration all had significant relationships treatment views. Job variety and integration had positive effects, while work-on-family conflict had a negative effect. Among the work attitudes, organizational commitment had a significant positive association. Not only did organizational commitment have a significant effect, it had the largest effect among all the independent variables. Though this study found new salient predictors of support for treatment and confirmed previous ones, there is still much unknown about the forces which shape and influence the treatment views of correctional employees, which should be studied in future research. Data were collected from 166 employees of a Midwestern private correctional institution using a mailed survey packet. Table and references