TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Learning to watch out prison chaplains as risk managers
JO  - Journal of contemporary ethnography
A1  - Hicks, Allison M.
SP  - 636
EP  - 667
VL  - 41
IS  - 6
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0891-2416
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241612452139
ID  - ref1
ER  -