La reforma penitenciaria será con los funcionarios o no será. Acerca de la necesidad de contar con el personal para lograr el cambio en la institución penitenciaria

Cristina Güerri

doi:10.5565/rev/papers.2637

Prison reform with or without correctional officers: The importance of prison staff in bringing about change in penitentiary institutions

Authors

Cristina Güerri Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4382-040X

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Abstract

This text forms part of a round table discussion with James B. Jacobs, author of the classic study on the sociology of prisons Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society, and examines the validity of his work 40 years later. The commentary addresses the importance of prison officer morale in the functioning of penitentiary institutions. Firstly, the thesis Jacob presents in Stateville on this issue is reproduced. It is then argued that his reasoning is also relevant to the Spanish penitentiary context. To conclude, the implications for the design and implementation of new penitentiary policies are discussed.

Keywords

prison officers, prison reform, job morale

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Author Biography

Cristina Güerri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)

Cristina Güerri Ferrández is a predoctoral researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) with a PhD Scholarship (FPU 2014, Spanish Ministry of Education). She is currently researching on prison staff in Spanish prisons.