DO DIFFERENT OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS VARY ON ATTITUDES AND WORK ADJUSTMENT IN CORRECTIONS

Research on correctional personnel often focuses solely on correctiona l officers. Less is known about the characteristics of other groups of correctional workers. Authors David Robinson, Frank J. Porporino, and Linda Simourd report on a national sample of 658 employees drawn from various ranks within the Canadian federal correctional jurisdiction. They compared six occupational groupings on attitudes toward the organ ization, attitudes toward offenders, job satisfaction, work orientatio n, and job performance. Among their findings was that correctional off icers were significantly different from most other groups in the major ity of comparisons.