@article{ref1,
title="Learning to watch out prison chaplains as risk managers",
journal="Journal of contemporary ethnography",
year="2012",
author="Hicks, Allison M.",
volume="41",
number="6",
pages="636-667",
abstract="In this article, I examine how prison chaplains are socialized to the risks of working with inmates. The dialectical tension of prison work--both routine and repetitive while also potentially uncertain and volatile--requires a distinctive working personality (see Skolnick 1966). I argue that the institution has a significant impact on the construction of a workplace culture defined primarily by risk management. The institutional culture of corrections creates perceptions of risk that chaplains come to internalize and negotiate in various ways. Using qualitative interview data, I discuss chaplains' management of risk. I conclude by discussing the relationship between working in a total institution and the development of a working personality unique to correctional chaplains.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0891-2416",
doi="10.1177/0891241612452139",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241612452139"
}