Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Follow us on Twitter

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Criminal Justice and Behavior
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Hepburn, J. R.
Right arrow Articles by Albonetti, C. A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Team Classification in State Correctional Institutions

Its Association with Inmate and Staff Attitudes

John R. Hepburn

University of Missouri-St. Louis

Celesta A. Albonetti

Missouri Division of Corrections

Team classification seeks to bring together various levels of correctional staff and the inmate to discuss and resolve issues pertaining to such matters as work and cell assignment, disciplinary action, furlough requests, and merit time considerations. The analysis of questionnaire data obtained from samples of 1,295 inmates and 555 staff in Missouri's adult correctional facilities supports the hypotheses that team classification, when successfully implemented, is (1) positively associated with staff attitudes toward inmates, work assignments, and other staff, and, with inmate attitudes toward staff and both living and program assignments; (2) negatively associated with staff punitiveness and role conflict and with inmate alienation. An effective team classification process that enables staff from various levels to work together and that permits the inmate to represent his interests in the decision-making process provides each member with a greater commitment to voice in and understand the institution's treatment of inmates. This, in turn, improves their perception of the living/working conditions within the institution.

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 5, No. 1, 63-73 (1978)
DOI: 10.1177/009385487800500105
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Criminal Justice and BehaviorHome page
H. Toch
Inmate Classification as a Transaction
Criminal Justice and Behavior, March 1, 1981; 8(1): 3 - 14.
[Abstract] [PDF]