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.